Trained Catholic exorcists in the US

As pizza restaurant spending has grown, Catholic exorcists have multiplied, a correlation of 0.986 that connects America's most popular food to America's most obscure spiritual practice with the confident absurdity of a chart that has found the intersection of pepperoni and the paranormal. The pizza is delivered, the demon is expelled, and both activities have gotten more expensive and more popular during the same two decades. One pictures an exorcist ordering a large pie after a long rite, which is almost certainly what happens.

Pizza spending grew from about 36 billion to over 65 billion dollars between 2005 and 2023. Exorcists grew from 12 to over 175. Both are smooth upward curves driven by different forces: pizza by population growth and delivery apps, exorcists by Vatican training expansion. Ten data points, two growing trends, same mathematical result. The pizza industry and the exorcism practice share nothing except a chart, though the Vatican presumably has a preferred pizza place.

Ten years of pizza and exorcists is the fifth entry in the exorcist correlation series, and at this point, the pattern is clear: exorcists correlate with everything that grew between 2005 and 2023 because their numbers followed a smooth upward curve during the same period. The pizza is blessed, the coefficient is cursed, and the chart continues to serve both without discrimination.