Fr. Carlos Martins, Sir Alec Guinness, and What Has Been Lost, by Peter Wolfgang

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture, Nov 29, 2024

Peter Wolfgang is president of Family Institute of Connecticut Action, a Hartford-based advocacy organization whose mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society. His work has appeared in The Hartford Courant ….

I’ve never been one for the “celebrity exorcist.” Never read a single book by Fr. Gabriele Amorth. Never watched a single YouTube video by Fr. Chad Ripperger.

But Fr. Carlos Martins? I was hooked from Day One. I learned of him through his interview on LOOPcast. I’ve since listened to the entirety of his Exorcist Files podcast. I think it may be the single best presentation of the Catholic faith in the podcasting world right now.

Fr. Martins is much in the Catholic press this week. The Pillar broke the story of his public ministries being suspended due to an “Illinois police investigation over alleged inappropriate conduct involving children.” It was subsequently revealed that the incident was not sexual in nature but, as Rod Dreher describes it, “only touching a lock of (a child’s) hair as he was joshing with a group of schoolkids about his own baldness,” in front of hundreds of onlookers. …

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