His Eminence recited the long St Michael's Prayer as an exorcism in St Peter's. He should have recited the Exorcism Against Satan & the Apostate Angels (only to be recited by Priests, Bishops, and those authorised to perform exorcisms).
From Fr Z's Blog
During the Mass at San Pietro, I sat right behind Ernest Card. Simoni. 97 years old, Albanian, tortured, imprisoned to do forced labor, sentenced to death. At the end of Mass he went to the ambo and recited the long St. Michael Prayer as an exorcism Specifically… exorcism.
The only things that would have made it better would be a) had it been done before Mass and b) had it been done by every priest in the place.
Card. Simoni went straight at the devil.
The Basilica itself has needed rites of exorcism for a long time.
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