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	Walter Halloran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Father Walter Halloran (September 21, 1921 – March 1, 2005) was a Jesuit Roman Catholic priest who, at the age of twenty-six, assisted in the exorcism of a thirteen year old Lutheran boy in St.
		Father Halloran would later relate that he saw lines and words written on the boy's body including the word, "hell." Although the weeks in which he helped with this case of possession would make him a reluctant minor celebrity he regarded the exorcism as just one event in his life and not the most important.
		In 1954, Father Halloran was ordained and two years later began teaching theology and history at his old school the Campion Jesuit High boarding school in Prairie du Chien.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Halloran (609 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Jesuit Priest Walter Halloran
		The Rev. Walter H. Halloran, 83, a priest who took part in an exorcism that spawned the book and movie "The Exorcist," died March 1 at a Jesuit retirement home in suburban Milwaukee.
		Father Halloran was the last living Jesuit who assisted in the exorcism in 1949 at a psychiatric unit in St. Louis.
		Father Halloran was a 27-year-old Jesuit scholastic at St. Louis University when a priest called him to the psychiatric wing at Alexian Brothers hospital.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A18767-2005Mar8?language=printer (275 words)

	The Death of the Exorcist?
		Halloran was asked to help control the child as he was having violent seizures.
		Halloran was born in Jackson, Minn., on Sept. 21, 1921.
		Halloran participated in exorcism prayers at St. Louis University and held the boy down when he became violent.
	www.wrexhamparaskeptics.4t.com /WPSNews/exorcistdies.htm (301 words)

	Campion Forever! Newsletter - VOLUME 3 - CHAPTER 1
		Halloran had hopes that his eldest son would study medicine, and did not think the attractions of Denver and the Rocky Mountains were conducive to preparation for that demanding work.
		Halloran, R's mother and the uncle and aunt of R were called into the bedroom in order to prepare for the exorcism.
		Halloran observed that the curriculum was still the typical course of study at Jesuit secondary schools.
	www.campionforever.org /news-1-03.html (6357 words)

	FAMOUS CASES...The Exorcist - WWW.GUARDIANTALES.COM
		One of the assistants was Father Walter Halloran, who was 26 at the time of the exorcism.
		The only things witnessed by Father Halloran during the exorcism that could be described as at all "paranormal" was a bottle slid from a dresser and across the room, with no one near it.
		Halloran was one of the few people in possession of a copy of the infamous exorcism diary.
	www.guardiantales.freewebspace.com /C-Exorcist.html (1164 words)

	JacksonCountyPilot.com - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Halloran was born in Jackson in 1921, the oldest of the nine children of Dr. Walter H. and Teresa R. Halloran.
		The Halloran family was well known for its good work in the city of Jackson, providing medical care and social work for countless families in the area for many years.
		Halloran was a young Jesuit student at the time of the 1949 series of events that inspired the book and movie.
	www.jacksoncountypilot.com /news/news.asp?ItemID=5702 (434 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Obituaries in the news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Halloran was a 27-year-old Jesuit scholastic at Saint Louis University when a priest called him to the psychiatric wing at Alexian Brothers Hospital.
		Halloran earned two Bronze Stars for serving as a paratrooper chaplain during the Vietnam War, the oldest airborne chaplain at the time at 48.
		Halloran would later teach at Saint Louis University and was named its director of national alumni relations in 1972.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/03/03/obituaries_in_the_news?pg=2 (681 words)

	April 23, 1998; \| www.sdreader.com
		Halloran says his biggest problem that night was believing what was happening before his eyes.
		Halloran held on, battered, feeling he was actually seeing evil manifested for the first time in his life.
		Halloran was taken off the case after about three weeks, because he had philosophy exams to face.
	www.sdreader.com /php/cityshow.php?id=C042398B (2141 words)

	ST. LOUIS EXORCISM CASE!
		Father Walter Halloran, who later served as the assistant pastor of the St. Joseph's Cathedral in San Diego, California, was only a seminary student at the time of the exorcism.
		Perhaps in contemplation, Halloran later reversed some of his comments and later told an interviewer that while he was not an expert enough in the field to make a determination as to whether the possession was officially genuine or not, he did believe that it was real.
		She recognized the name "Walter Halloran" in the text as he was an uncle of one of her classmates.
	www.prairieghosts.com /exorcist.html (10795 words)

	Blog of Death: Rev. Walter H. Halloran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Walter H. Halloran, the last surviving Jesuit participant of an exorcism that inspired a bestselling book and numerous films, died on March 1.
		Bowdern performed the rites of exorcism as Roo and Halloran prayed and forcibly restrained the boy.
		Halloran later told the press that he observed the boy shout obscenities during these ministrations, and spit at people four feet away with unerring accuracy.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/001333.html (573 words)

	the exorcist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Father Halloran, who was ordained to the priesthood in 1954, was a Jesuit scholastic at St. Louis University at the time he was assigned to hold down a 14-year-old boy known by the pseudonym "Douglas Deen," while Jesuit Father William Bowdern performed the exorcism with the assistance of Jesuit Father William Van Roo.
		Father Halloran would not presume that the boy's actions were caused by demonic possession.
		Father Halloran was assistant director of alumni relations at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., at the time of the 1988 story revisiting the exorcism.
	www.catholicherald.com /cns/cns05/halloran.htm (450 words)

	JS Online:Jesuit helped inspire 'The Exorcist,' served in Vietnam
		Halloran, the last surviving Jesuit member involved in the case, died Tuesday.
		Halloran said he saw streaks and arrows and words such as "hell" that would rise on the child's skin.
		Halloran volunteered for chaplain duty with the U.S. Army in 1966, first serving in Germany.
	www.jsonline.com /news/nobits/mar05/306632.asp (851 words)

	KSDK NewsChannel 5 - Where The News Comes First
		A funeral Mass for the Reverend Walter Halloran will be celebrated tomorrow in a Milwaukee suburb.
		Halloran was a 27-year-old Jesuit student when a priest called him to the psychiatric wing at a St. Louis hospital to help control a 14-year-old boy who he believed was possessed by a demon.
		Halloran was born in Jackson, Minnesota in 1921.
	www.ksdk.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=76053 (152 words)

	The Honolulu Advertiser \| Island Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Though many of those involved are now dead, including Bowdern, one priest, Walter Halloran, 71, still remembers the experience vividly.
		In 1978, the hospital building was torn down but not before a demolition worker found a copy of the diary in a desk drawer.
		Halloran, who lives in San Diego and is still a member of the clergy, hasn’t seen "Possessed." But it’s likely viewers will be more frightened watching the movie than he was living it.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /2000/Oct/21/1021islandlife28.html (426 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Walter Halloran, priest who assisted in exorcism; at 83
		WAUWATOSA, Wis. -- The Rev. Walter Halloran, a priest who took part in an exorcism that spawned the book and movie ''The Exorcist," died Tuesday night at a Jesuit retirement home, officials there said.
		Father Halloran was a 27-year-old Jesuit scholastic at Saint Louis University when a priest called him to the psychiatric wing at Alexian Brothers Hospital.
		The Rev. William S. Bowdern was trying to help a 14-year-old boy who he believed was possessed by a demon, and he needed a strong man to control the boy.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/03/07/walter_halloran_priest_who_assisted_in_exorcism_at_83?mode=PF (221 words)

	WNDU-TV: News Story: Michiana man activated because of medical expertise - March 31, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Walter Halloran is a cardio thoracic surgeon, commonly known as a heart surgeon.
		Halloran is one of the area's top open-heart surgeons, but he was recently called to active duty.
		Brian Caldwell is a physician's assistant and Dr. Halloran's right-hand man. Caldwell says not only is their staff feeling a loss but so are the patients.
	www.wndu.com /news/032003/news_19234.php (408 words)

	CardioThoracic Surgery, P.C. - Surgeons
		For over a decade, Dr. Walter Halloran has contributed his expertise to CardioThoracic Surgery, P.C. Since 1991 he has been an attending cardiothoracic surgeon at Memorial Hospital and St. Joseph Medical Center, and since 1996, also at Elkhart General Hospital.
		Dr. Halloran has authored several scientific papers and he has contributed to several chapters in surgical texts.
		Halloran, his wife, and their three children share interests in music, theatre and outdoor sporting activities.
	www.cardthorsurg.com /surgeons/halloran.htm (401 words)

	Sun.Star Pampanga - CERVANTES: The exorcist -- the real story
		I share this with you in the hope that belief in the afterlife - heavenly, purgatorial, or diabolical - is as real as the paper where you read this piece.
		Now living in San Diego, where he is assistant pastor at St. Martin of Tours Church, Father Halloran still vividly remembers the case, which took place in 1949 and involved a young boy named Rob (not a girl) from the Washington-Baltimore area, with the final exorcism conducted in St. Louis, where the boy had relatives.
		Father Halloran assisted the main exorcist, Father William S. Bowdern of St. Francis Xavier Church in St. Louis.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/pam/2002/11/08/oped/ding.cervantes.html (1541 words)

	Grace
		When the two priests, Father Raymond Bishop and Father Walter Halloran began the ritual of the exorcism, deep scratches and welts appeared on the boy's body.
		When Halloran took him out of the house once to a park, the boy attempted to commit suicide.
		Father Bowdern died in 1983, not in 1957 when the boy said he would, and Father Halloran is still a priest today and claims that he would be willing to participate in another exorcism if called to it.
	staweb.sta.cathedral.org /Grace01/graceArticle.asp?vA=27 (997 words)

	The Exorcist Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This past March, Father Walter Halloran, the last surviving Jesuit to take part in the exorcisms, died at 83.
		Halloran was a 27-year-old history student at SLU when Bowdern recruited him for the exorcism.
		The result is an enthralling day-by-day chronicle of the possession, beginning on January 15, 1949, when the boy's family first heard odd noises in their suburban D.C. abode, and ending April 19, when Bowdern is said to have finally cast Satan from the boy.
	journals.aol.com /gabreaelinfo/GabreaelsBodyMindSpiritJournal/entries/526 (2353 words)

	Part V - The Haunted Boy: the Inspiration for the Exorcist
		In 1949 Halloran was a 26-year-old scholar at St. Louis University studying for a master’s degree and preparing for priesthood.
		In August 1997 Halloran was reassigned from San Rafael Church in San Diego, California to Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where today he works as the hospital chaplain.
		When I contacted Halloran by phone, he sounded tired and clearly was not interested in discussing the incident with me. Still, to his credit, he thoughtfully answered every one of my questions.
	www.strangemag.com /exorcistpage5.html (4171 words)

	JIMMY AKIN.ORG: Priest From Famous Exorcism Passes
		The last surviving priest in the famous 1949 exorcism that sparked the idea for the novel The Exorcist has passed on at the age of 83.
		Walter Halloran participated in the exorcism of a 14-year old Lutheran boy in a psychiatric institute in St. Louis.
		Halloran held down the boy to control his violent behavior while the expercism was performed.
	www.jimmyakin.org /2005/03/priest_from_fam.html (355 words)

	JesuitUSA News, March 05, 2005
		Fr Walter H Halloran SJ died at age 83 on March 1 in Wauwatosa, Wis; he was the last surviving Jesuit involved in a 1949 exorcism case in St Louis that led to William Peter Blatty's 1971 best-selling book, The Exorcist, and the hit 1973 movie of the same name.
		Fr Halloran, who was ordained to the priesthood in 1954, was a Jesuit scholastic at Saint Louis University at the time he was assigned to hold down a 14-year-old boy known by the pseudonym "Douglas Deen," while Jesuit Fr William Bowdern performed the exorcism with the assistance of Jesuit Fr William Van Roo.
		Fr Halloran would not presume that the boy's actions were caused by demonic possession.
	www.companysj.com /sjusa/05-03-22.htm (1943 words)

	Seattle Catholic - The Reality of Evil
		The now Father Halloran recalls a bottle of holy water flying right by his head, crashing into the wall behind him.
		Bowdern never backed away from or qualified his conviction that he was engaged in a very real battle with the devil.
		Halloran has chosen to avoid speculation on the explanations behind the events, he has always maintained the reality of what he witnessed while assisting with the St. Louis exorcism.
	www.seattlecatholic.com /article_20021127_The_Reality_of_Evil.html (2941 words)

	Exorcism
		He asked Walter Halloran, an academic at St. Louis University, to drive him to the house where the boy was staying.
		Halloran took the boy one afternoon to get some fresh air.
		Halloran, who became a priest, is also still living, and he stated that he would be willing to participate in another exorcism, if he was called to.
	www.siue.edu /ALESTLE/library/fall1996/oct.31.96/exorcism.html (1285 words)

	Carol Iannone on Priests on National Review Online
		These thoughts came to mind when I read of the death of the Rev. Walter H. Halloran in early March of this year at age 83.
		In 1949, as a young Jesuit scholastic, he assisted the Jesuit priest, William Bowdern, in the real-life exorcism that became the basis for the novel and film, The Exorcist.
		Halloran went on to win two Bronze Stars as chaplain of a paratrooper unit in Vietnam.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/iannone200504070804.asp (1421 words)

	Halloran Family Genealogy Forum
		Re: Hallorans and Schofields - gerry holleran 8/08/04
		Re: Frances Halloran born 1909 - eileen halloran 9/19/01
		Re: Frances Halloran born 1909 - francis halloran 2/02/02
	genforum.genealogy.com /halloran (1104 words)

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