{"id":83997,"date":"2026-06-28T07:59:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83997"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:59:50","slug":"the-cancellation-of-an-american-exorcist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/the-cancellation-of-an-american-exorcist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cancellation Of An American Exorcist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> The Catholic Stand:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On March 27, 2026, during a lighthearted interview with Catholic Vice President J.D. Vance, conservative podcaster Benny Johnson asked his guest, \u201cYou gonna release all the UFO files?\u201d The Vice President, acknowledging his obsession with the topic at hand, declared his eagerness to \u201cget to the bottom of it.\u201d\u00a0 The two of them bantered for a bit about Area 51, but then Vance uttered an unexpected remark: \u201cYou know me\u2014you know me.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think they\u2019re aliens\u2026I think they\u2019re demons anyway, but that\u2019s a long discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a news release on the third of June, the Cardinal of Washington, DC suddenly announced the dismissal of his Archdiocesan Exorcist, Msgr. Stephen Rossetti, for statements that \u201cundermine the Church\u2019s very precise teaching on the devil, demons, and exorcism.\u201d\u00a0 Rossetti\u2019s crime?\u00a0 Echoing a very similar position to the one that Vance had articulated a few months previously: \u201cThis is not\u00a0<em>de fide,<\/em>\u201d he had said in an online video, \u201cBut it\u2019s my personal belief that probably many, if not most of these \u2018UFO sightings\u2019 are demons.\u201d\u00a0 In the wake of Rossetti\u2019s dismissal, online commentators have questioned the prudence of what they term \u201ccelebrity exorcists,\u201d priests like Rossetti who have garnered thousands of followers on X, Instagram, and Facebook.\u00a0 To begin with, these detractors condemn the appearances of exorcists on popular podcasts as cheap self-promotion, exploiting the intense sufferings of those afflicted by demonic possession for entertainment.\u00a0 Others accuse these priests of fanaticism born of an unhealthy fixation on the demonic.\u00a0\u00a0In actuality, at least in the case of Msgr. Rossetti, both of these claims are deeply flawed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Catholic Stand: On March 27, 2026, during a lighthearted interview with Catholic Vice President J.D. Vance, conservative podcaster.<\/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-83997","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\/83997","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=83997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83998,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83997\/revisions\/83998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}