Monsignor Stephen Rossetti is an ordained priest and psychologist who also served as an exorcist for the Archdiocese of Washington
The Archdiocese of Washington removed Father Stephen Rossetti as an exorcist due to his public statements arguing that UFOs have a demonic nature. From now on, the only demons you will have to deal with will be your own.
The Catholic Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert McElroyon Wednesday removed a renowned priest from his duties as exorcist of the archdioceseafter he made public statements suggesting that the UFO sightings were the work of demons.
According to , McElroy also announced that the archdiocese will cut ties with the St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal, a nonprofit organization based in Washington and led by the priest, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti.
The archbishop stated that Rossetti’s statements, “in associating UFOs with demonic presence, as well as the Center’s recent use of social media, seriously compromise the very precise teaching of the Church about the devil, demons, evil spirits and the rite of exorcism.
“There is a danger here”, said Rossetti on Friday, in a post on his Facebook page, regarding UFO sightings and the existence of extraterrestrials.
“As an exorcist, I wanted to warn about this danger. And that danger is the fact that demons like to hide. They don’t want us to know what they are doing, because they are more effective when we don’t realize it”, adds the priest
“They can, in a way, get into our heads and manipulating things in the world to influence us to do evil. It is my belief that probably many, if not most, of these UFO sightings are actually demons”, concludes Rossetti, who has more than 148 thousand followers on Instagram.
The priest also said that people can be good Catholics and believe that there is life on other planetsalthough he himself does not believe that life exists outside Earth.
Stephen Rossetti is a ordained priest and psychologist who also worked as an exorcist for the archdiocese, a role that involved investigating allegations of demonic possession, details the .
In a statement posted on the St. Michael Center website, Rossetti said he was saddened by the archdiocese’s decision.
“I ask for forgiveness in every way in which he was not faithful to the teachings of the Magisterium of the Church, in particular in the video mentioned about ‘extraterrestrials and the demonic'”, he stated. “I believe that It is of the utmost importance to obey the Church and I will continue to strive to ensure that everything I do, as well as the Center, is subject to that obedience.”
Rossetti, who has more than 148,000 followers on Instagram, is a prominent psychologist as well as an exorcist. His center has specialized in offering spiritual healing to priests affected by various difficulties.
The idea that extraterrestrials have a demonic origin is becoming increasingly popular. widespread among Christiansnote to .
According to Christopher Baglow, director of the Science and Religion Initiative at the University of Notre Dame, the Church does not formally have an official position about the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
However, Baglow explained to the NYT, Rossetti crossed a line by trying to present his own opinions as a new doctrine that all faithful Catholics would allegedly be obliged to accept.
