Tag: Catholic Church
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The Earling Exorcism: Father Theophilus Riesinger’s 23-Day Battle in Iowa
The extraordinary case of Emma Schmidt, the claims preserved by witnesses, and the victory that belongs to Jesus Christ alone. In 1928, inside a secluded convent near Earling, Iowa, a Capuchin priest began a solemn exorcism that would become one of the most widely discussed cases of alleged demonic possession in American Catholic history. The…
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Did Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich See Martin Luther in Hell?
According to some published accounts of the mystical visions attributed to Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824), she was shown the spiritual consequences of division within Christ’s Church. In these accounts, Emmerich reportedly saw Martin Luther among the condemned and was shown that his rejection of the unity and authority of the Catholic Church had grave…