Exorcisms are a wildly controversial subject, and everyone has their own opinion on it. Casting the demon out of someone’s body isn’t too popular with people who are not religious and is mostly a Catholic practice. For years, priests or other officials from the Roman Catholic Church have been performing exorcisms, as they record it, and it’s a skill rarely taught due to most accounts of exorcism having been revealed to be due to mental illnesses or other physical conditions such as epilepsy. Whether or not you believe exorcism to be a real practice, it is still a widely discussed and relevant event.

Recently, the Roman Catholic Church have started offering a week-long course on Exorcism. The course earns you a certificate, but does not confer the authority to perform an actual exorcism. Unlike the past, where exorcisms were performed in person, and in Latin, priests are starting to do these Exorcisms over the phone and in English. Cardinal Ernest Simoni has stated that “They call me and I speak, that’s how we do it,” referring to how he uses Latin prayers over the cell to cast a demon out of a possessed person’s body. Latin prayers have been starting to be translated into English, and apparently are still effective in the same way, and are easier for young learning priests to master.

Whether or not exorcisms exist, the practice is become more widely used, and more people are flocking to these courses and events that help them learn more about the act.