One of the more fascinating UFO stories of the past several weeks didn’t involve a whistleblower, a congressional hearing, or a strange object in the sky. It involved a Catholic exorcist.
Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, a well-known exorcist in the Catholic Church, was recently removed from his position after publicly discussing UFOs and suggesting that many UFO encounters could be demonic in nature. What’s interesting is that he was not removed because the Church officially declared his theory false. Instead, the controversy appears to stem from the fact that he was presenting a personal theory with the authority of an exorcist, despite the Catholic Church having no official teaching that UFOs are demons.
I really love this story in a way because it showcases the way that a lot of religion will have to grapple with disclosure if disclosure really happens.
And here’s the strange thing. There seems to be a tide that has turned. We’re quietly acknowledging or admitting that UFOs are real. Not necessarily aliens. Not necessarily spaceships. Not necessarily little green men. But there seems to be an increasing acceptance that something is going on, even if we have no idea what it is. We’re not really saying the quiet part out loud, but we’re keeping it quiet while simultaneously believing it loudly.
The truth is we don’t know if there are aliens. We don’t know if there are demons. We don’t really know much of anything. People can have beliefs and spiritual denominations can teach certain things about these subjects, while people on the other side of the coin will argue that it’s all made-up fairy tales anyway.
Listen, disclosure is going to be weird if and when it really occurs.
It will be abrasive to the human psyche in ways most people haven’t considered. I suspect that some people who have believed in aliens their entire lives will suddenly become skeptics once official disclosure arrives. Others who spent decades dismissing the subject may suddenly become believers. Human beings are funny that way.
For religions such as the Catholic Church, this may be one of the first examples of the dominoes and how they might fall. The Rossetti controversy wasn’t really about whether UFOs are demons. It was about who gets to define what UFOs are and how much certainty anyone can claim to have.
After disclosure, if disclosure ever comes, we may not be debating whether aliens are real at all. Instead, we’ll be debating what they are.
Are they extraterrestrials from another world.. time travelersl.. interdimensional beings?
Are they some future version of ourselves?
Or, as some religious thinkers have suggested, are they something spiritual in nature either good or bad?
The removal of one Catholic exorcist over comments about UFOs may someday be remembered as one of the earliest signs that humanity was beginning to wrestle with questions it isn’t remotely prepared to answer.
Maybe we should watch The FOURTH KIND again…
