@article{2019,title={BATTLE AGAINST THE INVISIBLE: EXORCISM IN CATHOLIC FAITH AND RITUAL},abstractNode={Believing in invisible beings is one of the articles in Catholic Credo. The invisible beings mean the angels and the Satan. Satan, who rebelled against God in an ancient celestial war, and the angels who joined his side were exiled to the earth after they lost the war. Because of this exile, the hostility of Satan and his associates to humanity has come to an extreme stage. In the Bible, this state of Satan is described by the analogy of a lion looking for prey. It is believed that man's weakened faith makes him an open target for these evil forces. Those who haunt human beings are the fallen angels and Satan himself. Possession is defined as the seizure of these evil forces. The demons that have been haunting people or places have been banished by Jesus Christ himself as a miracle many times. This power passed from Jesus Christ to his disciples and to the Church. The church has maintained this ritual in the historical process. The prayers recited in this ritual were first brought together in a prayer book called Rituale Romanum, declared by Pope Paul V on 17 June 1614. In 1891, new prayers have been added to this ritual by Pope Leo XIII. Finally, in 1999, it was subject to some changes in terms of content and form and this ritual took its final form. In this study, the old and new order of exorcism ritual is examined in a comparative manner and examples are given for prayers read in both rite. When these prayers, translated from Latin for the first time, are examined, it is revealed that exorcism ritual is very closely related to the intercession and mediation belief in Christianity. Because in almost all prayers recited, the angels, saints, martyrs or other holy persons are called to summon divine help. Moreover, on behalf of God's ‘love’ for all humanity, all divine interventions made during the history of salvation are recalled and in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, evil forces that possess the human being, who was created in the image of God, are casted out.},author={Musa Osman KARATOSUN},year={2019},journal={Turkish Studies-Comparative Religious Studies}}