“Where the devil did you disappear to?” I asked a Mexican friend who had suddenly vanished off WhatsApp for more than a week.
“I was in Rome,” answered my friend, whom I will call Joaquín. “An unexpected opportunity came up to take a course there, and on the spur of the moment I decided to accept.”
“A course in ..?”
“Exorcism,” he replied, his eyes sparkling, as if he had been taking singing lessons from Taylor Swift.
“What possessed you?” I was tempted to say but didn’t.
Out came Joaquín’s telephone, and he showed me a photo in front of St. Peter’s Basilica with a group of 25 other exorcism students from around the world.
All this happened two weeks ago and today he popped in to announce: “Yesterday I assisted in an exorcism. They permitted me to record it, audio only. Just listen to this!”
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