Adam Blai a Catholic Church Expert on demonology and Exorcism

With a masters degree in psychology from Penn State, Adam Blai is a Catholic Church decreed expert on religious demonology and exorcism in the Pittsburgh diocese. He is an auxiliary member of the International Association of Exorcists based in Rome, and over the last decade he has helped educate priests on exorcism and has assisted at many dozens of solemn exorcisms, house exorcisms, and resolutions of haunting.

With a masters degree in psychology from Penn State, Adam Blai is a Catholic Church decreed expert on religious demonology and exorcism in the Pittsburgh diocese, and over the last decade he's assisted at dozens of exorcisms, and resolutions of haunting. He discussed the state of exorcism, as well as his push to educate people on the current paranormal craze, and the dangers therein.

 In the last 5-7 years, more Catholic priests have been trained to perform exorcisms, as they've been seeing more real cases of demonic possession, and were moved to address the problem, he reported. Exorcists must have a strong emotional stability, he noted, as demons are adept at manipulating people, and finding their weak spots.

A demon can be thought of as "a manipulative criminal who has a few thousand years of experience of messing with people," he continued, though priests typically bind the demon to not harm those involved in the exorcism. Blai believes that demons are not ghosts of the deceased but fallen angels that have turned against God, though sometimes the spirits of dead humans such as Judas, can become attached to them. 

 

One reason why it can be so hard to expel demons (one case has taken more than 15 years) is that they suffer punishment and retribution by those higher up in their demonic hierarchy when they fail to maintain possession of a soul, he explained.