Pope Paul V

The church's emphasis on faith and reason can even be seen in the birth of exorcism itself and the exorcism ritual.

The Rite of Exorcism was first published in 1614 by Pope Paul V. to quell a trend of laypeople and priests hastily performing exorcisms on people they presumed were possessed, such as victims of bubonic plague, says the Reverend Mike Driscoll, author of Demon's Deliverance Discernment, separating fact from fiction about the spirit world.

A line in the movie The Rite said that the exorcist should be careful to distinguish between demon possession and melancholy.

which was a catch-all for mental illness, Driscoll says.

Tragically, it will be destroyed by a fire in 1823.

When Pope Clement dies The new pope, Paul V, appoints Lavinia Portraitist in Ordinary, which is a much more flattering title than it sounds.

Essentially, this makes Lavinia the pope's artist in residence.

She is also inducted into the all-male Accademia di San Luca, a painting academy so prestigious that even Caravaggio didn't get in.

It goes back at least to 650 B.C. when a man asked the gods to free him from a tyrannical ghost who possessed his soul.

And in 1614, Pope Paul V laid down a procedure in a rite entitled Rituale Romanum.

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These good priests sensed God calling them to form a religious order so Father Calasanz formed a rule and presented it to the Holy Father.

In 1617, Pope Paul V approved the rule submitted by Father Calasanz and the Pauline Congregation of the Poor of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, Piarists for short, was established as a congregation with simple vows.

In addition to the normal vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, these fathers took a fourth vow of dedicating themselves to the free education of children, especially the poor.

In 1621, the congregation was elevated to the status of a religious order by Pope Gregory XV, who gave them the name Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools.

Medieval ritual books included local prayers and formulas, and practices varied considerably.

In 1614, Pope Paul V promulgated the Ritual Romanum, which provided a more standardised Roman Catholic ritual framework and included a formal rite concerning exorcism.

It did not invent exorcism, it organised practices that had medieval and 16th century predecessors.

The contrast is real but should not be flattened.