WATCH: Fr. Ripperger, exorcists agree that demons can disguise themselves as ‘aliens’
Resurfaced video clips show that Msgr. Stephen Rossetti, who was ousted as the Archdiocese of Washington's exorcist, has support for his views on the demonic deception of UFOs and 'aliens.'
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(LifeSiteNews) — Resurfaced video clips show that Father Chad Ripperger, Father Carlos Martins, and other famous exorcists agree with Monsignor Stephen Rossetti’s view that demons can disguise themselves as aliens or UFOs.
A video published June 7 on the YouTube channel Mother & Refuge of the End Times shows a compilation of leading exorcists, including Ripperger and Martins as well as Father Jim Blount and Father Dan Reehil making nearly identical statements over the years to Msgr. Rossetti that demons will disguise themselves as so-called “aliens” and UFOs to deceive people.
Last week, Cardinal Robert McElroy, who is notorious for his heterodoxy on homosexuality and other key moral issues, removed Rossetti as an exorcist in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., and ended all affiliation with his St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal for expressing this same view that so-called “aliens” and UFOs are demons in disguise.
Leading exorcists link aliens/UFOs to demons
In a clip from one of his talks, Fr. Ripperger claimed that there are times during his sessions that demons will manifest themselves as what they call “grays,” which look like what we would call an “alien.”
“These grays, they claim that they are not angels or humans and that they are neither good nor bad,” Ripperger said.
The priest highlighted how these “grays” or alien-looking creatures being demons explains why many who claim to have been abducted report that the aliens communicate new knowledge to them or hyperfocus on sexual organs, showing that what they are really experiencing is diabolical in nature.
Ripperger also noted that numerous witnesses of so-called “extraterrestrials” have said that the beings went away after they proclaimed the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
“Testimony of numerous witnesses who were engaged in communication with what appeared to be extraterrestrials whose communications completely ceased the moment they confessed their faith in our Lord Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior,” he said.
In another clip from a talk, Fr. Blount said he has spoken to many people who claim to have had encounters with “aliens” who are not lying but have been deceived. He emphasized that in these cases, as Ripperger had noted, the “extraterrestrials” will flee when the name of Jesus is mentioned.
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“Many, many people have been experiencing what they call alien encounters … It’s been a huge problem with many people. I’ve met some, and they’re not lying; some strange things have happened,” he said.
“But here is what has been discovered after years of research. If that so-called alien comes to your house … We train people to say, ‘In the name of Jesus Christ leave,’ (and) they get frightened, they tremble, and they leave immediately,” he added. “Every single time a so-called alien encounter has occurred when the person recites sacred scripture or the name of Jesus, the aliens leave immediately. Hmmm … what do you think aliens really are? Let me tell you, they’re demons.”
In another clip, Fr. Martins said that appearing as “aliens” or UFOs may in fact be the preferred way for the devil to appear in our modern age.
“The devil packages himself and attires himself in the cultural expression that the age understands him,” the exorcist said. “He wants to be recognized as something; he wants to come to provoke a certain understanding.”
Martins underscored that demons will present themselves as “aliens” to cast doubt on Scripture and sacred tradition.
“And the question, though, is why would he want to come as an alien? Well, simply to cast a doubt on revelation, to show that the Christian revelation that scriptures and sacred tradition do not accurately represent the cosmology (does) not accurately describe existent things,” he said. “In doing this, he casts a doubt on Jesus Christ and everything that Jesus Christ did.”
In a separate clip, Fr. Reehill noted that what we call “aliens” are incompatible with Church teaching and suggested instead that so-called “aliens” are demons masquerading as extraterrestrials.
“If there’s an alien on another planet who was rational, and he’d have to be if he built a spaceship, he has to have reason and a will. That would be an impossibility because this is what the (Church teaches) that we are the only material beings who can know and love God,” the exorcist said.
“The demons can impersonate what looks like an alien … They can do that, that would be my option,” he added.
Msgr. Rossetti’s original statement on UFOs
“There’s no question in my mind personally … it’s my personal belief that probably many, if not most of these UFO sightings are in fact demons,” Msgr. Rossetti said in his now-deleted video, adding that the demons can accomplish feats that humans are incapable of, such as those observed in UFO sightings, like changing trajectories at seemingly impossible speeds.
The exorcist noted at the outset of the video that, while the existence of aliens is theoretically possible, he does not believe they exist. He stressed that the “danger” of entertaining this idea is that “demons like to hide,” suggesting that disguising themselves as a UFO or alien is one way that they do so.
“They don’t want us to know who they are” or “what they’re doing,” the exorcist said, “because they’re more effective when we don’t realize it.”
Disguising themselves allows demons to “manipulate things in the world to influence us to do evil,” he pointed out.
“The Scriptures are very clear: ‘For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places. Therefore, take unto you the armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day,’” Rossetti recited, quoting Ephesians 6:12-13.
“The fight we have in this world, the spiritual battle, is with the evil one,” he declared.
Msgr. Rossetti’s removal
Just two days later, the Archdiocese of Washington announced that McElroy had removed Rossetti as an exorcist for these statements, which the prelate falsely claimed “undermine” the Church’s teaching.
“Cardinal McElroy said that statements made by Monsignor Rossetti linking UFOs to demonic presence and the Center’s recent use of social media gravely undermine the Church’s very precise teaching on the devil, demons and exorcism,” the archdiocese’s press release stated.
Msgr. Rossetti responded to McElroy’s action by apologizing for “any ways that I have not been faithful to the teachings of the Church’s Magisterium,” but did not explicitly repent for anything specific that he mentioned in the video. He noted that the St. Michael Center “plans to continue its ministry elsewhere.” The ordinary of Rossetti’s home diocese, Bishop Douglas Lucia of Syracuse, declared that the exorcist remains a priest in good standing.
Catholic teaching and aliens
Contrary to McElroy’s claims, several Catholic clerics and thinkers have posited that UFOs and so-called “aliens” are demonic in origin. In addition to the exorcists cited above, Catholic philosopher and professor Daniel O’Connor has warned for years of a forthcoming alien deception.
O’Connor previously told LifeSiteNews Editor-in-Chief John-Henry Westen that the public is gradually being acclimated to the idea of aliens, like the proverbial frog slowly boiled in a pot of water, so that we may eventually be presented with a “new gospel” from “the heavens” to replace Christ’s Gospel.
He has cited 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 as an indication that demons can deceive human beings with “wonders” such as that of apparent UFOs: The lawless one comes “with all power and with pretended signs and wonders … with all wicked deception”; God sends a “strong delusion” so that people “believe what is false.” O’Connor says we may understand this to include a great end-times deception involving aliens and UFOs.
O’Connor emphasized that the Genesis creation account shows that God created the physical universe for man and earth alone: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) Everything the account describes thereafter is for man on earth, with the exception of an allusion to angelic beings, some of which fell and became demons.
He has also cited several popes who have condemned the idea of alien life. For example, Pope St. Zachary, in an eighth-century letter to St. Boniface regarding Virgil of Salzburg, condemned as “perverse and abominable … in opposition to God, and to his own soul’s detriment” the teaching that there is “another world and other men beneath the earth, or even the sun and moon.”
Indeed, the Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms this, stating that “Of all visible creatures, only man is able to know and love his Creator … he alone is called to share … in God’s own life” (CCC §355-356) and that the universe is “destined for and addressed to man.” (CCC §299)
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