A paranoid Catholic priest , Mgsr. Stephen Rossetti, has been removed from his role as an exorcist after making remarks linking UFOs to demons. Has he been talking to J.D. Vance? See e.g.:
Rossetti, meanwhile, is reported by Newsweek to be "a well-known exorcist in Washington, D.C." This in itself is somewhat confounding given the Vatican hierarchy decades ago admitted that the Church's ritual of exorcism was founded and promulgated not on the belief that demonic possession was real, but that the afflicted person believed it was real.
Thus, the rite of exorcism was initiated as a memetic template to cure the belief in the person's possession, not any objective possession per se. Up to now, indeed, no one - including the padre, far less any pope- has been able to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that any demonic possession has ever occurred. How could it have if there are no such entities as 'demons'? Indeed, I destroyed the whole concept of 'demons' in a blog post from 5 years ago:
So it was gratifying to learn Rosetti was relieved of his duties by Cardinal Robert McElroy, the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., after saying in a May 29 video that “many, if not most,” UFO sightings "could be explained as demonic activity."
On what basis, padre? Did you actually SEE a demon in one, or piloting one? If so when? Do you have the name of said demons involved in this activity? No, didn't think so.
McElroy took action on June 3 and said the comments “gravely undermined” official Catholic teaching on demons and exorcism, which again, that the first are a fantasy and the latter a therapeutic intervention aimed at curing the person's belief in possession.
This prompted the archdiocese to also cut ties with the center that is headed by
Rossetti. Also a good move, given serious RC prelates don't want their church going any further down the rabbit hole of nutso -land.
Rossetti later said he was saddened by the decision and apologized, pledging to remain obedient to Church doctrine. If you are then stop the infantile demonic babbling and do more research into actual UFOs, and their physical basis. E.g.
Brane Space: Yes - Scientific Analysis of UFOs Is Certainly Possible!
Rosetti stepped in it when he talked bunkum about UFOs and aliens in a recent Facebook video, blabbing this poppycock:
“There’s a danger here. As an exorcist I wanted to raise that danger. And that is that demons like to hide…They don’t want us to know what they’re doing because they’re more effective when we don’t realize it. They can kind of get into your head, you know, and manipulate things in the world to influence us to do evil."
Adding:
“It’s my personal belief that probably many if not most of these UFO sightings are in fact demons.”
Stated with absolutely no proof, including that a 'supernatural' even exists. Something I referenced in a June, 2018 Physics Today essay:
Readers’ thoughts on science and religion - Physics Today
In a statement posted on the St. Michael Center website, Rossetti said:
“I ask forgiveness for any ways that I have not been faithful to
the teachings of the Church’s Magisterium, particularly in the cited video on
‘aliens and the demonic.’
Then do yourself and your church a favor, padre, and cease with the phantasmagorias of trying to tie obvious alien craft - space craft - to 'demons'.
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by Amanda Marcotte | April 2, 2026 - 5:20am | permalink
Even for JD Vance, it was a weird moment. Over the weekend, the vice president appeared on the podcast of Benny Johnson, a sycophantic MAGA media figure tied to the conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA. The two discussed the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown, Medicaid fraud and the SAVE Act, which would undermine Americans’ freedom to vote, and Vance even accused Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., of immigration fraud. But in a blatant attempt to snag the attention former president Barack Obama received for discussing aliens during a recent podcast appearance, the conversation turned to the extraterrestrial and UFOs, which the Yale-educated Vance argued are actually demons.
The vice president pretended to pivot from “a longer discussion” of the subject, but then he immediately started pontificating about the culture’s “desire” to classify “celestial beings who fly around” as “aliens.” The Christian interpretation, he argued, should be demons, because “one of the devil’s great tricks is to convince people he never existed.”
And:
by Phil Rockstroh | April 2, 2026 - 4:35am | permalink
— from Phil Rockstroh's Substack
JD Vance on UFOs: “I don’t think they’re aliens; I think they’re demons.”
Anaïs Nin: “We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.”
We don’t see the world (or the phenomenon) as it is — we see it as we are. High time the exorcists known as clinical mental health workers were dispatched to Vance’s DC residence.
The Vice President, as do an evangelical cadre of top US Air Force brass, warn, UFOs are piloted by inter-dimensional things that go bump in the night. By the evidence, the primary threat to the security of the US homeland: an acute episode of shared psychosis inflicting men in positions of power.
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