If this priest was ordained in 1954 let’s assume that he began doing exorcisms no earlier than 1962. That’s 50 years of exorcising. In that time he has performed over 70,000 exorcisms? That’s 1400 exorcisms a year or 3.84 exorcisms a day including weekends. This is such a preposterous assertion that it renders the rest of the article incredible.
the original article.
Just because one statement seems wrong (to me as well) does not mean they all are. Just as i won’t grant a blanket acceptance i will also not blankly condemn every assertion. All we know is he’s had difficulty sounding sane in his later years. The events may be from memory.
If a village or group of people were “exorcised”, he could count everyone present and “an exorcism”, couldn’t he?