Catholics/Latin Prayers

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I read some time ago an interview done with Fr. Gabriele Amorth in which he stated that exorcism prayers said in Latin are more effective. Your thoughts?

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It is not just the Latin, but the traditional Catholic forms.  Those of the New Order, which almost always uses the vulgar tongues (although rarely Latin is used), are, for the most part, invalid.  They are not the Catholic forms, but were made up in the late 1960s and thereafter from Protestant forms.

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A traditional Catholic priest, who provides forthright answers to questions FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TRADITIONAL CATHOLICISM (not the New Order) on topics pertaining to TRADITIONAL Roman Catholicism, including theology, the Bible, Church history, the Latin language, liturgy (especially the Traditional Latin Mass), and music (especially Gregorian chant), and current events in the Catholic Church.

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