“Exorcist” priest Walter H. Halloran, 83

Posted: Thursday, March 3rd, 2005 12:57 pm

WAUWATOSA, Wis. — The Rev. Walter H. Halloran, a priest who took part in an exorcism that spawned the book and movie “The Exorcist,” has died at age 83.

He was the last living Jesuit who assisted in the exorcism in 1949 at a psychiatric unit in St. Louis. He died Tuesday night at a Jesuit retirement home in suburban Milwaukee. … Read full obituary