April 4, 1997: Exorcism - Father Malachi Martin

Father Malachi Martin, an Irish-born Jesuit who advised two popes and performed exorcisms for three decades, delivers one of the most harrowing accounts of spiritual warfare ever broadcast. Speaking from his Manhattan apartment, Martin describes his rigorous Jesuit training, his path to the Vatican, and the terrifying reality of confronting demonic entities face to face.

Martin reveals that the need for exorcisms in America has increased by 800 percent since 1970, driven in part by a new phenomenon of young professionals who deliberately made pacts with dark forces in exchange for career success. He recounts a year-and-a-half exorcism involving a powerful demon whose function was the desecration of human love, describing how exorcists probe for weaknesses while the entity probes theirs. Martin explains that losing an exorcism destroys the priest permanently, and admits he possesses a second sight that allows him to sense demonic presence in ordinary people on the street.

The conversation extends into the crisis of faith within the Catholic Church, the nature of the soul, and Martin's cryptic warning to watch the skies for an abnormal sign that spring. His calm authority transforms every revelation into something genuinely unsettling.