{"id":83657,"date":"2026-06-14T09:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83657"},"modified":"2026-06-14T09:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:39:30","slug":"fr-rossetti-cardinal-mcelroy-and-the-case-of-unidentified-ecclesiastical-motives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/fr-rossetti-cardinal-mcelroy-and-the-case-of-unidentified-ecclesiastical-motives\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Rossetti, Cardinal McElroy, And The Case Of Unidentified Ecclesiastical Motives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Catholic World Report:<\/p>\n<p>In a video released May 29, now-former exorcist of the Archdiocese of Washington D.C., Msgr. Stephen Rossetti (a priest of Syracuse, New York) described his opinion on the phenomenon of UFOs and their possible connection with demonic activity.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, on June 3, the Archdiocese publicly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicworldreport.com\/2026\/06\/03\/archdiocese-of-washington-removes-prominent-exorcist-over-remarks-linking-ufos-to-demonic-activity\/\">announced<\/a>\u00a0that Msgr. Rossetti was no longer the diocesan exorcist, and it had ended any affiliation with his associated non-profit, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicexorcism.org\/\">St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal<\/a>. Msgr. Rossetti stated in his own brief release on the site that he was grateful to have served as the diocesan exorcist for some 19 years. He offered an apology for any disobedience and encouraged others to remain faithful to the Church, as well as stating his intention to pray for the Archdiocese.\u00a0A skimming of the online reactions to this scuffle would leave one absolutely convinced that people have very strong feelings about UFOs and demons, and perhaps even stronger feelings about Msgr. Rossetti and the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Robert McElroy. However, one would also likely be left wondering exactly what Msgr. Rossetti said in the first place, or, worse, certain that he had said something that, in fact, he had not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Catholic World Report: In a video released May 29, now-former exorcist of the Archdiocese of Washington D.C., Msgr. Stephen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83659,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83657\/revisions\/83659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}