This week, Tucker Carlson called the President of the United States the Antichrist on his podcast. The Vatican hosted the International Association of Exorcists, who warned Pope Leo XIV of a global surge in Satanism and formally requested a trained exorcist in every Catholic diocese on earth. Father Chad Ripperger, one of the most prominent demonologists in the modern Church, has been describing the specific mechanics of how demonic influence operates through institutions and individuals.
Is it possible that world leaders are operating under the influence of an ancient demonic force? I have spent over a decade researching exactly this. I wrote a book about it. The answer is more disturbing than the question, because the ancient world did not merely describe possession. They built infrastructure for it. They named it. They classified its stages. They identified the methods of induction, the patterns of institutional spread, and the vulnerability of those closest to power.
This piece traces that infrastructure from the temples of Sumer to the Roman imperial court to the Vatican’s operational taxonomy of demonic influence, and into the halls of modern government. Along the way, you will learn why the word “idea” describes something that owns you rather than something you own, and what the Catholic Church has quietly identified as an emergency in 2026.