{"id":84097,"date":"2026-07-02T07:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84097"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:43:13","slug":"when-catholics-squabble-over-ufos-and-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/when-catholics-squabble-over-ufos-and-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"When Catholics Squabble Over UFOs And Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> WNG.org:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Are aliens among us, or are people seeing a lot of demons lately?<\/p>\n<p>Many prominent Catholics seem to believe the latter. In March, Vice President JD Vance\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0HsJk-wQAQI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<em>The Benny Show<\/em>\u00a0that he believes UFOs are demons. Father Chad Ripperger, one of the most famous Catholic exorcists in the world, made the same\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I2p_cfipbEw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argument<\/a>\u00a0on the Shawn Ryan podcast. More recently, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, another Catholic exorcist with a large social media following and head of the St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal, said, \u201cThere\u2019s no question in my mind\u2014again, this is not\u00a0<em>de fide<\/em>\u2014it\u2019s my personal belief that probably many, if not most, of these [UFO] sightings are in fact demons.\u201d Those comments aired in a video released on May 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WNG.org: Are aliens among us, or are people seeing a lot of demons lately? Many prominent Catholics seem to.<\/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-84097","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\/84097","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=84097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84099,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84097\/revisions\/84099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}