(LifeSiteNews) — Monsignor Stephen Rossetti will resume his online spiritual deliverance ministry in September after having been removed as an exorcist of the Archdiocese of Washington in early June.
The exorcist priest announced July 13 that his center will restart its online activity by holding a live deliverance webinar prayer session on September 28.
“We’ll continue to focus on our liberation and physical healing and emotional and psychological healing,” Rossetti said.
The deliverance prayer sessions are hosted on the YouTube channel of Rossetti’s Saint Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal (SMC). The last livestreamed deliverance session by Msgr. Rossetti was held in May.
Rossetti confirmed that he continues to have faculties as a priest in several dioceses and that he still has faculties as an exorcist in a few dioceses despite Cardinal Robert McElroy’s removal of his faculties as an exorcist in the Diocese of Washington.
As previously reported by LifeSiteNews, the removal by McElroy occurred after Rossetti published a now-deleted YouTube video on UFOs in response to a surge of interest in the topic after the Trump administration’s recent release of files documenting alleged observations of UFOs during which the priest said that he believes at least “many” of the UFO sightings are actually demons in disguise.
“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,” he said, 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.
Just days later, the Archdiocese of Washington announced that McElroy had removed Rossetti as an exorcist, falsely claiming that his statements on UFOs “undermine” the Church’s teaching.
A press release from the archdiocese said that McElroy, who is well-known for his heterodoxy on homosexuality and other issues, had “ended all affiliation” between the archdiocese and Msgr. Rossetti’s Saint Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal in Washington, D.C.
“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,” according to the press release.
The D.C. archdiocese appears to have deleted its tweet announcing McElroy’s removal of the exorcist after receiving intense backlash, though the press release remains on the archdiocesan website.
Catholic teaching and aliens
Catholic philosopher and professor Daniel O’Connor has also posited that UFO phenomena are demonic in origin and 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 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 also cited several popes who have condemned the idea that there is 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.”
Pope Pius II in Cum sicut accepimus condemned the propositions of Zaninus de Solcia, including that “God created another world than this one, and in its time many other men and women existed, and consequently Adam was not the first man.” He called these “most pernicious errors” and “a sacrilegious attempt against the dogmas of the holy Fathers.”