The end result is the same: victory and restoration in people’s lives and families, he said.

Brankin said he and his team see a lot of unnatural things — objects being moved around houses, people with impossible strength crushing metal crucifixes in their hands, vomiting and wailing — and he said Hollywood likes to focus on those things but that the reality of exorcism is different.

“Hollywood focuses on the devil and the brutality and the horrors,” he said. “We focus on Christ, the display of his power. It’s a proclamation of the kingdom of God.

“In the case of the person who was possessed and set free, God’s kingdom has come.

“There’s always a profound conversion experience by the whole family,” he said.

Brankin said he and his team usually have two or three active cases at any time. Most of them are non-Catholics.

He encourages them to get involved in their own churches.

All major religions have some form of exorcism, he said.