Did not see it, I hope to.
I’ll preface this by saying I’m sick of all the Catholic bashing I see in our culture, but I absolutely and completely refute the notion put forth (mainly by the entertainment culture) that only Catholic Priests can exorcise demons.
Firstly, a priest NEVER casts out demons, only our Lord is capable of that.
Secondly, I was raised in a Pentecostal church and I’ll tell you this: There is no demon born of Hell that wants to butt heads with some of the passionate souls I’ve seen in the church.....While I won’t say I’ve seen them “casting out demons”, I’ve seen some pretty scary things occur in the church that would make one lean that way.
I watched it last night. For a network TV show it seemed pretty good. I haven’t seen the original movie since I was a kid so i can’t make any comparisons. I do wonder how they will stretch it into a season (and 2 and 3 and so on). My other concern is often they pump alot of money into the pilot (which was probably what was shown last night), so it almost has a ‘movie’ feel to it, but then subsequent episodes drop in quality and revert to the more ‘TV’ feel.