Jeanie Hannaman

By Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald - In some circles, Catholic and otherwise, exorcists are the new celebrities. You may have heard of Fr Gabriel Amorth, often known as the exorcist to the Vatican, who famously claimed there were more demons per square metre resident there than anywhere else on earth... Or you may be one of the million or so following the astonishing Fr. Chad Ripperger on YouTube .... If so, you may also have become aware of Fr Carlos Martins, who has just published a book that the Catholic Herald is about to review, The Exorcist Files.

The Fatima Center - In 1830 the Blessed Mother appeared three times at the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul on the rue de Bac in Paris. She manifested Herself to the humble postulant Sister (now Saint) Catherine Labouré. Here is how the Saint described the encounter when the Medal of the Immaculate Conception was revealed: “Her feet rested on a white globe … I saw three rings on each of Her fingers, graduated in size, the largest one near the base of the finger, one of medium size in the middle, the smallest one at the tip set with gems of proportionate size, some larger and others smaller …