Aliens Don't Exist, But Demons Do
A Cardinal, an exorcist and a great deception
Washington archbishop Cardinal Robert McElroy has removed Msgr Stephen Rossetti from his role as an archdiocesan exorcist after Rossetti made remarks linking UFOs to demonic activity. Cardinal McElroy stated that Rossetti’s remarks “gravely undermined” Church teaching.
Huh!?
We saw recently how dangerous D.E.I indoctrination is when it removes our God given ability to reason and replaces it with a set of secular dogmas which must be adhered to; thou shalt not be a racist being foremost among them. Perhaps being a Carindal and all, McElroy attended next level D.E.I training which warned him against the dangers of Interstellar Speciesism. All are welcome, who are we to judge?
I doubt this. I’m not convinced McElroy himself is sure how Rossetti gravely undermined Church teaching, but the fact that he said it is very telling.
One need not agree with every conclusion Rossetti reached to recognise something important: he was asking a question that Catholics have asked for two thousand years.
What if not everything that appears supernatural is from God? Indeed, what if some of it is designed precisely to distract mankind from God? These are reasonable questions, and we must be free to ask them, even at the risk of upsetting ET.
The Church has always been concerned with deception. The serpent’s first words in Eden were not violence, coercion, or force. They were persuasion. Humanity’s fall began not with a sword but with a lie.
“Ye shall be as gods.” Gen 3:5
That is why Our Lord repeatedly warned His disciples about the danger of deception.
“Take heed that no man deceive you” Mt 24:4
The Fathers of the Church return to this theme again and again.
St. Irenaeus taught that Satan seeks to imitate divine works in order to mislead mankind. St. Hippolytus wrote that the Antichrist would deceive through signs and wonders. St. Cyril of Jerusalem warned Christians to be vigilant because the devil would present false marvels to lead souls astray.
There is nothing new about deception, the Church Fathers lived in a world full of reports of apparitions, strange manifestations, pagan gods, and supernatural claims. Their instinct was never credulity. It was discernment.
The first question was always:
“What spirit lies behind this?”
Over the last few decades, UFOs (now rebranded as UAPs) have moved from the fringes into mainstream culture. Trump is talking about aliens, Government hearings have been held, whistle-blowers have emerged. Major media outlets regularly discuss the possibility of non-human intelligences. We have seen what it looks like when the ‘fringe’ becomes the ‘norm’, when the gargoyles are removed from the external cathedral walls and placed on the altar - and it ain’t pretty!
My generation have been groomed for decades to accept a massive lie, a lie which strikes at the very heart of what it means to be created in the image of God. This lie has been diseminated through mass media, which does not simply disseminate "lies" in the traditional sense, but actively manufactures what Beaudrillard calls a "hyperreality". In his view, these cinematic simulations and cultural myths become so pervasive that they replace reality, making the very distinction between truth and fiction meaningless.
