Weekly Roundup: Exorcism, the new Paxil?

• Just a reminder: people are experiencing serious psychological and religious difficulties in the Indian Ocean region in the wake of the Tsunami. A Globe reporter witnesses a traditional healing session in Sri Lanka. (It looks to us as if the healer employs a technique using runes of some sort.)
• As for religious affairs that just aren't that important: Eileen McNamara on how the Catholic Church in Boston is just picking up where it left off. Most perplexing tidbit: is it true that the PR person for the archdiocese, is not even employed by the archdiocese? What? Could it not find a spokeswoman who wanted to be on its payroll? Or has it adopted a strategy of "outsourcing" its public statements? Is this sending a faith-based message?