New monthly magazine about exorcism

Egzorcysta is a new monthly magazine in Poland dedicated to exorcism. Launched by Roman Catholic priests in association with the publisher Polwen, the first issue includes articles like "New Age - the spiritual vacuum cleaner" and "Satan is real." It also includes an exclusive interview with Captain Howdy. OK, that's not true. But the rest is, reportedly. From AFP:

"The rise in the number or exorcists from four to more than 120 over the course of 15 years in Poland is telling," Father Aleksander Posacki, a professor of philosophy, theology and leading demonologist and exorcist told reporters in Warsaw at the Monday launch of the Egzorcysta monthly.

Ironically, he attributed the rise in demonic possessions in what remains one of Europe's most devoutly Catholic nations partly to the switch from atheist communism to free market capitalism in 1989.

"It's indirectly due to changes in the system: capitalism creates more opportunities to do business in the area of occultism. Fortune telling has even been categorized as employment for taxation," Posacki told AFP.

"Exorcism boom in Poland sees magazine launch"

• [TimRowledge]

  This is from The Onion, right? Cos real people don’t actually beleive nonsense like that. Surely…

  • [Marek Bernat]

    They do :/
    I used to live there. Clergy got way too much power there, they can get away with any bullsh*t they made up.
    Crazy place, unfortunately it’s for real…

    • [Cefeida]

      I still live here, and you’re exaggerating. 

    • [TheMudshark]

       Many of my friends are Polish and only a few of them are exorcists.

  • [Cefeida]

    Plenty of people believe in supernatural things. They don’t even have to be religious. You really didn’t know that?

• [Stephen Marts]

  Thank you for the “Hysterical” reference. I’d tell you it made my day, but what difference does it make?

• [Matt Popke]

  Speaking as someone of nearly pure Polish descent, there’s a polack joke in there somewhere. I can’t help but think the rise in exorcisms has some relation to the rise of backward-thinking conservatism that seems to be happening world-wide right now. One can only hope the Polish dioceses put as much effort into removing pedophile priests from their parishes as they do into removing the boogeyman from their more deluded parishioners.

  • [Brainspore]

    Speaking as someone of nearly pure Polish descent, there’s a polack joke in there somewhere.

    Ever hear the one about the Polish exorcist who got kicked out of the bar because he tried to banish all the spirits?

• [kringlebertfistyebuns]

  Thanks for posting that picture.  I haven’t had the shit scared out of me by it quite enough times.

• [angusm]

  Can you exorcise “stupid”?

• [BillStewart2012]

  Lots of people start magazines.  (Several friends of mine did that during the Internet boom.)  The question is whether they can get past Issue 1 and maybe even past Issue 2 before they fold, or whether they decide that Issue 1 was so cool that they print up N times as many copies of Issue 2 and end up with a garage full of them.   And advertisers are really going to kill for space in a magazine with 120 potential customers :-)

  • [Cefeida]

    I was just going to say that. I’m sure that if we took a good look at all the magazines published worldwide, we’d find crazier stuff.

• [darrrrrrn]

  To be fair the New Age is a bit of a “spiritual vacuum cleaner”

• [Cefeida]

  I’m not sure I get the big whoop. Exorcism has been around for ages and ages, it’s an official thing in the Catholic Church, so I don’t see what’s so unusual here.

  Another thing the Catholic Church does is warn its followers of false idols, which is what this magazine is supposed to be about. Yes, Catholics believe Satan is real, it’s kind of a requirement. They also believe certain practices are harmful and blasphemous, and this magazine is meant to explain why.
  I can’t really judge the merit of this magazine, but according to the press release, it’s not meant to be a tabloid selling cheap stories about demons, but a serious discussion about issues relevant to Catholics who want to be true to their faith.

  In other words, the name is funny, but it sounds like it’s really just another religious paper.And finally, whatever the outcome: this isn’t officially endorsed by anyone important in the CC. As quoted above, anyone can publish a magazine.

• [Mike]

  Capitalism sure does make people stupid.

• [Rev. Benjamin]

  PICTURE = UNICORN CHASER DAMN IT. : (

• [Red Pill Junkie]

  The power of Christ COMPELS YOU… to subscribe.