Fr. Carlos Martins, priest, relic curator, and working exorcist, opens the listener mailbag on The Exorcist Files. Ryan Bethea hands him the hardest questions the show gets, and Father answers every one without the padding: a Protestant fan who finds relics cringey, a business owner who has to lay off people who feel like family, a 40-year-old woman losing hope of ever marrying, and whether a Christian is allowed to pray a “holy curse.”
Underneath it all runs the question this show keeps circling: when you say “I heard the Lord say,” how do you know it was Him? We get into relic cards slipped down a demoniac's sleeves, an abortion clinic that never turned a profit, the three ugliest qualities you should ask your friends to name, and a word Father heard in a haunted house, imitation. Relics, holy curses, discernment, singleness, layoffs, and reconciliation. One mailbag.