Conciliar Sect’s Exorcism Theatre: Laymen Usurp Priestly Office Amidst Invalid Rites
The EWTN News portal reports on October 2, 2026, that Adam Blai, a lay consultant for the Pittsburgh diocese of the conciliar sect and member of the post-conciliar “International Association of Exorcists,” claims a sharp rise in exorcism requests over the past five years. Blai, who instructs conciliar “priests” at the “Pope Leo XIII Institute” at Mundelein Seminary, frames this surge as the Holy Ghost “raising up this ministry,” while advocating a discernment process heavily reliant on medical and psychological collaboration. The cited article relates a narrative of institutional expansion within the neo-church’s deliverance apparatus. This spectacle manifests not a revival of spiritual power, but the grotesque parody of the exorcistic office by a paramasonic structure devoid of valid priesthood, jurisdiction, and the True Mass.
The Usurpation of the Exorcistic Office by the Laity
The most immediate scandal crying out to heaven is the elevation of a layman, Adam Blai, to the role of teacher and coordinator of exorcisms. He “teaches priests how to perform exorcisms” and leads a team that “prays with people weekly.” This constitutes a direct violation of divine law and the immutable discipline of the Church. The power to exorcise demons in the Church’s name is a sacramental power intrinsically linked to the priesthood of the New Testament. As the Roman Ritual (Tit. XII, Cap. 3) mandates, the Exorcist must be a presbyter “pious, learned, prudent, and of integrity of life,” expressly deputed by the legitimate Ordinary.
“Every priest has the power to do exorcisms in their ordination. What they donʼt have is permission to pick up the exorcism rite and pray it over somebody until the bishop gives that to them.”
Blai’s statement exposes the conciliar sect’s functionalist ecclesiology: jurisdiction is reduced to a mere administrative “permission slip” from a “bishop” who himself lacks canonical mission. But the deeper horror is the layman instructing the “clergy”. This inverts the hierarchical constitution established by Christ (Pastor aeternus, Denz. 1821-1831). St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that the laity are not deputed to the ministry of the sacraments or sacramentals which require sacred orders (Summa Theol., III, q. 64, a. 3). The “International Association of Exorcists,” founded in 1990 under the auspices of the usurper John Paul II, institutionalizes this clericalization of the laity and laicization of the clergy—a hallmark of the ecumenical and democratic virus condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “The Church… demands for itself… full freedom and independence from secular authority… it cannot depend on anyone’s will.” Here, the “ministry” depends on the will of a lay “consultant.”
The Invalidity of the Conciliar “Exorcism Rite” and “Priesthood”
Even if Blai were a valid priest, the rite he teaches is the novus ordo exorcism rite (1999/2004), which gutted the traditional formulas of the Roman Ritual (1614, revised 1952). The traditional rite invokes the authority of the Most High God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, the Immaculate Virgin, and all the Saints, commanding the demon by the Sign of the Cross and the Precious Blood. The new rite, typical of the lex orandi of the lex credendi of Vatican II, shifts focus to “pastoral care,” “discernment,” and “healing,” often omitting the imperative, juridical commands that reflect the Kingly authority of Christ the Judge.
More fundamentally, the “priests” Blai instructs are, in the overwhelming majority, products of the invalid Pontificale Romanum of 1968 (Paul VI). Lacking the form and intention required for the Sacrament of Order (Pius XII, Sacramentum Ordinis, 1947), they possess no priestly character, no power to absolve, to consecrate, or to exorcize. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto (“ipso facto… ceases to be Pope and head… just as he ceases to be a Christian”). The “bishops” of the Pittsburgh diocese, adherents of the conciliar apostasy (religious liberty, false ecumenism, new mass), are manifest heretics. They possess no jurisdiction. Canon 188.4 (1917 Code) declares an office vacant by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The “bishop” granting “permission” to “pick up the exorcism rite” is a layman in purple, a pseudo-episcopus. Therefore, the entire “exorcism ministry” in Pittsburgh is a simulacrum, a theatrical performance devoid of supernatural efficacy.
Naturalistic “Discernment” Replaces Supernatural Judgment
Blai boasts that the Church has learned to “carefully discern whether something is a spiritual problem, medical problem, misunderstanding, or even a false claim of possession.” He warns: “If we start saying these dramatic prayers over a person with mental illness that has delusional ideas, we could encourage those ideas.”
“The evil spirits need permission from God to do what they do… When we play with the occult… we form a relationship with them. And thatʼs the root of these extraordinary demonic problems.”
While the latter statement contains a kernel of Catholic truth regarding the danger of the occult, the modus operandi described is thoroughly naturalistic and modernist. The Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist error that “The Church listening cooperates… that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Prop. 6) and that “Faith… is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Prop. 25). Blai’s approach subordinates the supernatural reality of demonic obsession/possession to the DSM-5 and psychiatric evaluation. The true Exorcist, armed with the Rituale Romanum and the Sign of the Cross, does not first consult a psychiatrist; he uses the signa of possession (speaking unknown languages, revealing hidden things, strength beyond nature) as defined by the Church’s perennial theology (cf. Benedict XIV, De Servorum Dei Beatificatione, Lib. III, Cap. XV). The conciliar “discernment” is a capitulation to scientism and the autonomy of the natural order—errors condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (Props. 3, 4, 56, 57): “Human reason… is the sole arbiter of truth… Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction.”
This “discernment” paralyzes the ministry. The demon laughs at the “exorcist” who asks a doctor for permission to pray. The true Church knows that extraordinary demonic activity requires the extraordinary remedy of the Church’s sacramental authority, not a referral to the Mayo Clinic.
The “Pope Leo XIII Institute”: A Mockery of Tradition
Blai operates out of the “Pope Leo XIII Institute at Mundelein Seminary.” This is a diabolical masterstroke of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. Leo XIII, the Pope of Humanum Genus (1884) and the Exorcism against Satan and the Rebel Angels (1890/1897), the great enemy of Freemasonry, has his name affixed to an institute training agents of the novus ordo—the very revolution Leo XIII condemned as the “mystery of iniquity” (Humanum Genus, 10). The False Fatima Apparitions file details the “Masonic Operation ‘Fatima'” with its “ritualistic 200-year cycles” (1717, 1917, 2017). The naming of this institute fits the pattern: usurping the symbols of Tradition to legitimize the counter-church. Mundelein Seminary, the heart of the Chicago conciliar machine, produces the “priests” who dismantle the Mass. Now it exports the “exorcism” that cannot drive out demons because it lacks the Potestas Ordinis and Potestas Iurisdictionis of Christ the King.
Symptomatic of the Great Apostasy: Activity Without Grace
Blai claims the rise in cases is because “the Holy Spirit is raising up this ministry.” This is blasphemy against the Third Person of the Trinity. The Holy Ghost dwells in the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church (the Societas Perfecta of Quas Primas and Satis Cognitum), not in the Church of the New Advent which teaches religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and the validity of false religions (Nostra Aetate). The surge in “demonic activity” is not a sign of the Spirit’s work but the inevitable consequence of the withdrawal of God’s grace from a world—and a “church”—that has dethroned Christ the King.
Pius XI in Quas Primas diagnosed the plague: “secularism of our times, so-called laicism… It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The conciliar sect officially denied this reign at Vatican II. When the King is cast out, the “strong man armed” (Luke 11:21) takes possession of the house. The “exorcisms” of the conciliar sect are the futile thrashing of a body without a Head. They are “sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal” (1 Cor 13:1).
The Syllabus (Prop. 55) condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” The conciliar sect lives this condemnation. Its “exorcists” operate as state-licensed chaplains or psychological counselors. They have no public authority. They are private actors in a private club.
Conclusion: The Only Remedy is the Restoration of the Kingship of Christ
The article from the EWTN portal—mouthpiece of the neo-church—unwittingly documents the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). A layman teaches invalid “priests” a gutted rite under heretical “bishops” to combat a demonic invasion caused by the very apostasy they represent.
“Jesus tends to provide the other people and gifts and support around the ministry that that exorcist needs.”
This sentimentalism replaces the Certum Petendi of the traditional rite: “Exorcizo te, omnis spiritus immunde, in nomine Dei… ut eruas et effuges ab hoc Dei famulo…” (I exorcise you, every unclean spirit, in the name of God… that you depart and flee from this servant of God…).
The faithful who seek deliverance in these structures seek the living among the dead (Luke 24:5). True deliverance comes only through the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary (the Traditional Latin Mass), the valid Sacraments administered by true priests (ordained sub conditione in the traditional rite by valid bishops), and submission to the Social Kingship of Christ the King over individuals, families, and nations. As Pius XI commanded: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” Until the conciliar sect is recognized for what it is—the synagogue of Satan (Apoc 2:9) masquerading as the Bride of Christ—and the faithful flee to the catacombs of Tradition where the true Mass and true Priesthood endure, the demons will multiply, and the “exorcisms” will remain a tragic, sacrilegious farce.
Non praevalebunt. (They shall not prevail.)
Source:
Pittsburgh diocesan consultant reports rising exorcism requests (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 02.10.2026