God Quote by Gabriele Nanni

Calling an exorcism “tantamount to a miracle” is a rhetorical power move: it elevates a disputed, culturally loaded ritual into the highest-value currency of religious credibility. Nanni’s phrasing isn’t content to treat exorcism as pastoral care, psychology, or folklore. It insists on category: not merely rare, not merely dramatic, but “extraordinary intervention of God,” language that quietly sidelines mundane explanations and re-centers divine agency as the only adequate frame.

The word “tantamount” is doing sly work. It concedes, just barely, that an exorcism may not be a canonized miracle in the strict sense; then it collapses the distinction anyway. That half-step gives the line an air of reasonableness while still landing the punch: if exorcism equals miracle, skepticism starts to look like disbelief, not debate. “Extraordinary” reinforces that move by granting the ritual a special exemption from everyday causality. Once the event is labeled extraordinary, the demand for ordinary evidence can be dismissed as missing the point.

Context matters because exorcism is one of Catholicism’s most cinematic exports, endlessly recycled by horror media and true-crime-style storytelling. In that ecosystem, calling it a miracle reads like an attempt to reclaim authorship from pop culture and from secular psychiatry alike. The subtext: the Church isn’t performing theater; it’s witnessing a rupture in the fabric of the normal. The line functions as both defense and recruitment, offering believers a thrilling proximity to the supernatural while framing the institution as the authorized gatekeeper of that encounter.