The Rite Quotes

“The Devil had finally convinced the world that he no longer existed.”
― Matt Baglio, The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist

“November 15, 1972, Pope Paul VI spoke out on the matter to a general audience, saying that “evil is not merely a lack of something but an effective agent, a living spiritual being, [and that] it is contrary to the teaching of the Bible and the Church to refuse to recognize the existence of such a reality.”
― Matt Baglio, The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist

“In simple terms, according to the Christian tradition, love is a metaphysical necessity for created beings since it is only through love that such beings can realize their full potential.”
― Matt Baglio, The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist

“The Devil is present everywhere that evil things happen within the normal laws of nature. In anyone who says: I don’t accept love, the love of my brothers and sisters, the love of God. And in many places, in all massacres, in every murder, in physical catastrophes, in every concentration camp, in all evil. Sometimes he shows himself, strangely, but also in cases of possession. But he’s much more dangerous where he doesn’t let himself be seen, where he can’t be done away with through exorcism. —Father Pedro Barrajon,
excerpt from interview in
Die Welt, December 2, 2005”
― Matt Baglio, The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist

“We should try to be so closely united to our Lord that we reproduce his life in our own, that our thoughts and words and actions should proclaim his teaching, so that he reigns in us, lives in us. —Charles de Foucauld”
― Matt Baglio, The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist