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Exorcisms Are Exploding Across America — But Nobody Wants to Admit Why, by John Mac Ghlionn – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By John Mac Ghlionn, Blaze TV, December 28, 2025

One doesn’t need to believe in God to believe in evil — it’s everywhere.

From Michigan to Melbourne, exorcisms are rising — an odd trend in an age when Christianity is supposedly retreating.

Odd, that is, if you accept the official story: that faith has faded, churches have emptied, and modern life has supposedly outgrown such concerns. Yet behind parish doors and rectory walls, priests report the opposite: more calls, cases, and urgency.

The demonic, it seems, didn’t get the secular memo.

I began making inquiries recently, speaking with clergy who have dealt with what most people would rather joke about, pathologize, or turn into content. One name surfaced repeatedly: Fr. Michael Shadbolt, a veteran priest who had performed numerous exorcisms and spoke of them with measured calm. I reached out to him for insight. Instead, I received word that he had recently passed away. …

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