Sitting in his office, holding a red book titled “De Exorcismis Et Supplicationibus Quibusdam,” (“Of Exorcisms and Certain Supplications”), he conceded that despite 75 exorcisms on eight people, his success has been limited. (Nicki Minaj told Ryan Seacrest that her mock exorcism failed, too, because Roman was too “amazing” to succumb to holy water.)

The pastor explained that “soul wounds,” like sexual abuse, pornography and sexual addiction, can serve as “doorways” to demonic attachment and possession. “Demons are always looking for people who have broken relationships and no relationships,” he said. “That’s why sexual abuse mixed with the occult is the perfect cocktail.

“Demons don’t have corporeal bodies like we do. They can travel faster, are far more intelligent and have a much keener sense of free will.”

He’s not frightened of meeting a violent end like Fathers Merrin and Karras. “I’m protected,” he said. “I go to confession before an exorcism.” The 58-year-old priest does, however, think that Satan has tried to tempt him with “lustful urges.”