“Pope Francis Effect” – more exorcists!

You mean the Pope believes in Satan? Pope Francis certainly mentions the demonic often enough.

The Argentinian pontiff’s fire-and-brimstone language and frequent references to the Devil have helped propel belief in Beelzebub back into the mainstream of the Catholic Church, where once it was an embarrassment.

A William Blake illustration of Satan from Milton’s Paradise Lost.

And here’s how the Devil appears in Dante’s Inferno

I guess artists like to portray the devil without his pants on. Here he is in the “Examination of Job”