The EWTN News portal reports on a conference held September 16, 2026, at the Basilica of St. Mary Queen of Apostles in Rome, marking the tenth anniversary of the death of Father Gabriele Amorth. Organized by the post-conciliar magazine Famiglia Cristiana, the Society of St. Paul, and the International Association of Exorcists, the event featured speakers from the neo-church’s exorcist bureaucracy—Fathers Bamonte, Lanza, Buonaiuto, and Stimamiglio—who extolled Amorth’s “humanity,” “spirituality,” “communication skills,” and his founding of the International Association of Exorcists in 1994 under the auspices of the usurper hierarchy. The conference presented Amorth as a model of “charity” and a mystic whose legacy serves “the Church and Our Time.” This spectacle reveals the neo-church’s substitution of supernatural religion with a theatrical cult of personality, validating invalid rites and a usurped hierarchy while ignoring the lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of praying is the law of believing) that binds true worship to true doctrine.
The Theatrical Substitution of the Sacred Rite
The article boasts that Cardinal Ugo Poletti—an appointee of the antipope Paul VI and thus a non-prelate devoid of jurisdiction—appointed Amorth exorcist of the Diocese of Rome in 1985. It notes his training under Father Candido Amantini, a Passionist of the neo-church, and his establishment of the International Association of Exorcists in 1994. What the article deliberately omits is the only fact that matters: the validity of the rite and the priesthood. The traditional Roman Ritual (De Exorcismis et Supplicationibus Quibusdam), the sole instrument authorized by the Church’s immutable tradition for the expulsion of demons, was abandoned by the neo-church in favor of a fabricated “Rite of Exorcism” promulgated in 1999 under the antipope John Paul II. This new rite excises the imperative formulas (Exorcizo te, omnis spiritus immunde, in nomine Dei… — “I exorcise you, every unclean spirit, in the name of God…”) replacing them with deprecatory prayers that beg rather than command. As St. Thomas Aquinas teaches, the sacramental efficacy of exorcism derives from the Church’s jurisdictional authority and the priest’s character indelibilis (indelible character) acting in persona Christi (in the person of Christ). The neo-church’s “priests,” ordained according to the invalid Pauline rite of 1968—which severed the form from the intention of sacrificing priesthood—possess neither the character nor the jurisdiction. Amorth’s thousands of reported “exorcisms” were null simulations, theatrical performances that left souls in bondage while feeding the neo-church’s appetite for sensationalism.
Anthropocentric Language: The Cult of Man Displaces the Cult of God
The linguistic decay on display is itself a confession of apostasy. The speakers laud Amorth’s “deep humanity,” “profound humanity,” “gift for communicating,” “simplicity,” and “attentiveness to those who suffer.” Father Buonaiuto compares him to Father Oreste Benzi, founder of the “Pope John XXIII Community”—named for the antipope who convened the robber council Vatican II—praising them as priests who “certainly did not know diplomacy” but addressed “the suffering of others.” Father Stimamiglio commends Amorth’s journalism inspired by “Blessed James Alberione”—a “beatification” by the antipope John Paul II, hence null. Nowhere does the article mention the gloria Dei (glory of God), the salus animarum (salvation of souls), the remissio peccatorum (remission of sins), or the judicium finale (final judgment). This is the precise fulfillment of Pius XI’s condemnation in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The neo-church’s “exorcism” has been reduced to a psychotherapeutic intervention, a humanitarian service stripped of the potestas ordinis (power of order) and potestas jurisdictionis (power of jurisdiction) that alone bind the demonic. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns the proposition that “The Church is not a true and perfect society… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). Here, the neo-church defines its own “exorcism” as a pastoral service, severed from the regnum Christi (Kingdom of Christ) and submitted to the spirit of the world.
Invalid Priesthood, Null Exorcisms, Deceived Faithful
The Defense of Sedevacantism file establishes the theological principle: a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto (by that very fact). St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The line of usurpers from John XXIII to Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) are manifest heretics—proclaiming religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, and the “hermeneutic of continuity”—and thus never possessed the papacy. Consequently, their appointments (Poletti, Amantini, the “bishops” ordaining Amorth’s “exorcists”) are null. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares vacant any office by “tacit resignation… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The neo-church’s hierarchy, by embracing the errors condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) and Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907)—evolution of dogma, historical-critical method, immanentist revelation—has publicly defected. Amorth, operating under this hierarchy, never received valid jurisdiction. His “International Association of Exorcists” is a paramasonic structure mimicking the Church’s hierarchy, a “synagogue of Satan” (Apoc. 2:9) gathering the neo-church’s functionaries to legitimize the abomination. The faithful who seek deliverance there receive simulacra, not sacraments—a diabolical mockery that confirms them in bondage.
The Masonic Network Behind the “International Association of Exorcists”
The False Fatima Apparitions file exposes the Masonic strategy of “negative credentialing” and “control of the narrative” through false mysticism. Amorth’s career follows the pattern: a “charismatic” figure permitted by the hierarchy to build a global brand (Stage 2: 1940-1958 globalization), later co-opted by modernists to advance the ecumenical agenda (Stage 3: 1958-2000). Amorth’s books—An Exorcist Tells His Story, An Exorcist: More Stories—sensationalize the demonic, feeding a Gnostic curiosity condemned by St. Pius X: “The pursuit of novelty… leads to deplorable consequences… aiming at such a development of dogmas as appears to be their corruption” (Lamentabili, Introduction). His “International Association,” founded in 1994, serves as a control mechanism, standardizing the defective new rite, marginalizing the traditional ritual, and integrating exorcism into the neo-church’s “pastoral care” bureaucracy—effectively secularizing the sacred. The involvement of the Society of St. Paul (Alberione’s media conglomerate) and Famiglia Cristiana (a post-conciliar weekly) confirms the media-operation nature of the enterprise: the “exorcist” as celebrity, the rite as content, the faithful as audience.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The article’s total silence on the necessity of the state of grace, the True Mass (Sacrificium incruentum Calvariae), the traditional Roman Ritual, and the sede vacante is not an oversight—it is the crimen laesae maiestatis Divinae (crime of injured Divine Majesty). True exorcism presupposes the sacerdos alter Christus (priest as another Christ) offering the Hostia immaculata (immaculate Host) for the liberation of the afflicted. The neo-church’s “exorcists” celebrate the Novus Ordo Missae—a Protestantized “memorial” that denies the propitiatory sacrifice, the Real Presence as defined by Trent, and the priesthood as defined by Pius XII in Mediator Dei. They have no altar, no sacrifice, no priesthood, no jurisdiction. Their “exorcisms” are sacrilegia (sacrileges) that profane the holy name of Jesus invoked without authority. As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” The neo-church’s “exorcists” expand not Christ’s Kingdom but the kingdom of the Antichrist, the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Matt. 24:15).
Symptomatic of the Abomination of Desolation
This conference is a symptom of the systemic apostasy diagnosed by St. Pius X: “Modernism… the synthesis of all errors” (Pascendi). The neo-church celebrates its own functionaries, canonizes its own heretics (John Paul II, John XXIII, Paul VI, “Blessed” Alberione), and constructs a counterfeit spirituality centered on homo religiosus (religious man) rather than Deus revelatus (revealed God). Amorth’s “legacy” is the normalization of invalid rites, the displacement of the traditional exorcism from the consciousness of the faithful, and the consolidation of the neo-church’s claim to be the Church. The remedy is not “better exorcists” within the neo-church but flight from the abomination to the remanens Ecclesia (remaining Church)—the bishops and priests retaining valid orders, the traditional Mass, the traditional Ritual, and the integral faith. Non possumus (we cannot) collaborate with the usurpers. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation)—and the neo-church is not the Church. The true exorcist today is the priest who, una cum the true hierarchy (however obscured), offers the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and wields the traditional Ritual with jurisdiction supplied by the Church in necessity (Ecclesia supplet). All else is smoke of Satan (Paul VI’s inadvertent truth) entering the sanctuary.
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Father Gabriele Amorth remembered as exorcist, spiritual guide, and communicator (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 18.09.2026