Britain's Telegraph (and several other papers) recently reported that Father Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's Exorcist in Chief, had just announced that the Pope is setting up a system whereby each Bishop will have a team of priests trained in exorcism.
see: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/29/wexor129.xml

Father Amorth has written a couple of books about exorcism based on his experiences since becoming the Vatican's official exorcist in 1986. In them he claimed having performed over 50,000 exorcisms. Let's see, start in 1986, publish book in 1999.... hmmmm. 50,000 done in 13 years. Why that's over 10 per day, every day! For a look at Padre Amorth's thinking, one can read an excerpt from one of his books at:
http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features/framorth_excerpt1_aug04.asp

But the next day, the Catholic World News quoted the director of the Vatican's press office as saying, "Pope Benedict XVI has no intention of ordering local bishops to bring in garrisons of exorcists to fight demonic possession.”
see: http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=55627

As an aside, Rev. Richard McBrien, who formerly chaired Notre Dame's theology department has a different outlook on exorcism, as seen here: "Catholic scholar, the Rev. Richard McBrien, who formerly chaired Notre Dame's theology department, states that he is "exceedingly skeptical" of all alleged possession cases. He told the Philadelphia Daily News (which also interviewed me for a critical look at the subject), "Whenever I see reports of exorcisms, I never believe them." He has concluded that ". . . in olden times, long before there was a discipline known as psychiatry and long before medical advances . . . what caused possession was really forms of mental or physical illness (Adamson 2000). Elsewhere McBrien (1991) has said that the practice of exorcism-and by inference a belief in demon possession-"holds the faith up to ridicule." Let us hope that the enlightened view, rather than the occult one, prevails." excerpted from "Exorcism! Driving Out the Nonsense" by Joe Nickell at: http://www.csicop.org/si/2001-01/i-files.html

Good artical, thanks for posting it.