Vatican, Italy - Paranormal Phenomena

Vatican, Italy

The Real Exorcism of "Emily Rose" (Anneliese Michel)

By Eric T. Hansen Special to The Washington Post BERLIN -- The first person to recognize that Anneliese Michel was possessed by demons was an older woman accompanying the girl on a pilgrimage. She noticed that Anneliese would not walk past a certain image of Jesus, refused to drink water from a holy spring and smelled bad -- hellishly bad. An exorcist in a nearby town examined Michel and returned a diagnosis of demonic possession. The bishop issued permission to perform the rite o...

The Fatima Apparitions, Prophecies and the Cover-ups

In 1917, in the village of Fatima, about 70 miles north of Lisbon in Portugal, three peasant children reported seeing an apparition of the "Blessed Virgin Mary". They were 8-yr. old Lucia Santos, and her cousins Francesco and Jacinta Marto. On Sunday May 13, 1917, the visions began. They were told to return on the 13th of each month for six consecutive months. This they did, and received prophetic information from the visits. On the last visit, Oct. 13, 1917, they and 70,...

Roman Catholicism - Christian or Pagan?

The Roman Catholic Church, headquartered in Rome, Italy, has its own powerful City-State, the Vatican, and claims over 968 million members worldwide and 60 million in the U.S. and Canada (as of 1996). (Catholic membership figures are considerably misleading, though, in that they count as members every person who has been baptized Catholic, including millions of people who were baptized as infants but who are not practicing Catholics.) The Roman Catholic Church, in its pagan form,...