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The editorial said it was "encouraging that the Vatican considers exorcism worthy of modernisation," adding, "It is reassuring to discover that the Vatican has not dropped its guard."
The Vatican's new, revised guide to exorcism, "De Exorcismis et Supplicantionibus Quibusdam," lists these three warning signs but cautions that exorcists "must not consider people to be vexed by demons who are suffering from some psychic illness."
A return to exorcism may be excessive, but there is plenty of evidence that children are hardier than previously thought (see, for instance, this essay by Judith Rich Harris, or read her book The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do ).
And what about the prominence of the word bless which carries the meaning of exorcism, healing, remedy in Caribbean folk consciousness?
Child molesting is thought to be so evil, so far outside the bounds of civilization, that no means of exorcism can be considered too harsh or prone to error.