Director William Friedkin recalls a mixed reaction from Catholics around the world upon the film's initial release. Although he reports that there was no stated reaction from the Catholic Church, some within their ranks liked it, while others despised it. Friedkin says Cardinal O'Connor "used to talk about in his homilies at St. Patrick's Cathedral," while the head of the Jesuit order at the time, Father Pedro Arrupe in Milan, "loved the film, had his own print and used to run screenings of it for friends and clergy". On the flip side, adds Friedkin, "Billy Graham once said publicly that 'the Devil is in every frame of 'The Exorcist.'' That's a quote. I, of course, never saw it that way. I saw as a story of good and evil and one explanation of an inexplicable topic, which is why bad things happen to good people."
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