Nebraska priest who said he performed exorcism at U.S. Capitol apologizes, explains actions
“This guy wanted to interview me, and I could tell that he wasn’t … of good intention,” Fulton said. “But I thought maybe I could lead him to something that could help to evangelize him. And so I tried to find commonalities with what he was saying — he was saying very anti-Catholic stuff.
“I was trying to lead him to, maybe, information that could maybe change his mind, or at least suppress his anti-Catholicism,” Fulton said. “And so he edited the video and he ended up weaponizing it.”
After Becker watched the online video of Fulton’s Sunday comments to his parishioners, Becker posted his
full five-minute interview with Fulton on his YouTube channel. Previously, Becker had shared the full interview only with a World-Herald reporter.
Fulton’s comments on Sunday, in addition to what he told Becker, further outraged former parishioners. They said they felt again that the Archdiocese of Omaha wouldn’t listen to their concerns that Fulton couldn’t effectively lead the parish. They said they had brought the issue to archdiocesan officials in September 2019 and asserted that the matter had divided the town.
The Archdiocese of Omaha said Friday that Fulton is not a trained exorcist and that he later told church officials that he had not performed a formal exorcism, but “led others in prayer.” Through a spokesman, Archbishop Lucas said he was “very angry” at Fulton and said Fulton shouldn’t have attended the event, much less been there dressed as a priest, because “it was a misuse of his priestly ministry.”
Archdiocesan officials said Fulton’s views do not reflect the views of the archdiocese. After the article was posted Friday, Deacon Tim McNeil, the chancellor for the Archdiocese of Omaha, sent an additional comment from Lucas: “Whether or not Fr. Fulton broke any laws, I condemn his participation in the event in the strongest terms.”
) think the Bible was edited or added to. Those passages have always been in there. I think more focus was put toward some of those passages for whatever personal or political reasons.
