Very well said!!! Loved Fr. Martin God Rest his soul. He was definately a soldier of God. Another book The Rite. About Fr. Thomas. He was sent to the Vatican to train as an exorcist.
Apparently, Bishops from all over were bombarding Rome for help.
These things should not be taken lightly.
I read the Rite also. Rome is still being bombarded. The skeptics would call this rise a reflection of movies, imagery and the culture depicting Satan and his Demons. I worked a case a couple of years ago, much like this OP says, faces in the mirrors, shadows, bad smells, pets being injured, poltergeist activity, the guy was a PhD at a major university, an agnostic from what I could gather. not some wild eyed “Jesus freak”. We got lots of activity via EVP, weird light anomalies, I personally saw the shadows and we all experienced doors slamming and being shoved out of rooms. One of our investigators had to leave, she got so upset. Punch line here is these things are real not some cultural mass hallucination or paranoia