Well, we finally found the line a priest has to cross with the Catholic Church in order to receive a rebuke.

Monsignor Stephen Rossetti has been removed from his role as exorcist for saying unapproved things about demons and aliens.

The one time a Catholic priest says a true thing he gets in trouble??

Here are more details from NBC News:

McElroy said the archdiocese also was cutting ties with the St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal, a Washington-based nonprofit headed by the priest, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti.

The archbishop said Rossetti's statements 'linking UFOs to demonic presence and the Center's recent use of social media gravely undermine the Church's very precise teaching on the devil, demons and exorcism.'

He "undermined" the church's teachings because he used his expertise and experience to state a belief he sincerely held to be true. That aliens are demons or are at least influenced by demons and manifestations of a spiritual realm.

And his ministry is now cut off.

'There's a danger here,' Rossetti said Friday in a video on his Facebook page addressing UFO sightings and the existence of aliens. 'As an exorcist I wanted to raise that danger. And that is that demons like to hide. ... They don't want us to know what they're doing because they're more effective when we don't realize it.'

'They can kind of get into your head, you know, and manipulate things in the world to influence us to do evil.'

'It's my personal belief that probably many if not most of these UFO sightings are in fact demons,' Rossetti added.

This is an embarrassment to the Catholic Church? I've gotta tell you, about a million Protestants with podcasts are talking about how UFO sightings and the invisible spiritual world are related. Apologist Wes Huff has talked about how our modern sci-fi stories influence the way a 21st-century American perceives encounters with the spiritual world compared to someone in other cultures or times.

The Bible teaches that there is an invisible spiritual world that runs parallel to our material, visible world.

'By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.' - Hebrews 11:3

The Apostle Paul told Christians that their fight was not against other people, but against the "the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms" (Ephesians 6:12).

Angels and demons are presented in a variety of shapes and forms throughout the Bible, illustrating different ways that people have encountered them throughout history.

Catholic authors like JRR Tolkien have used this theme in their own works. Tolkien's "Middle-earth" is the physical world and is juxtaposed with the heavenly continent of Valinor, where the undying elves live. In his fictional world, God literally removes Valinor from the physical world so men cannot sail to it after the men of Númenor (the nation of Aragorn's ancestors) built a fleet to try to invade it.

The Church did not condemn Tolkien for using Nordic and Anglo-Saxon folklore to depict the interplay between the spiritual and physical worlds, but they have an issue with discussing how secular sci-fi that started in the 1860s with Jules Verne (and Charles Darwin) influences the modern perceptions of the secular West?

What about Vice President JD Vance? Will he be excommunicated from Rome for believing alien sightings are spiritual encounters?

Back to Monsignor's punishment and repentance:

In a statement posted on the St. Michael Center website, Rossetti said he was saddened by the action of the archdiocese.

'I ask forgiveness for any ways that I have not been faithful to the teachings of the Church's Magisterium, particularly in the cited video on 'aliens and the demonic,' he said. 'I believe it is of the utmost importance to be obedient to the Church and I will continue to endeavor to subject all that I do and the Center to be thus obedient.'

You've gotta respect that.

Still, someone should probably tell the Catholic Church that the secular myth of the post-modern West is a lie and the spiritual world is real.

William Tyndale is probably looking down from heaven and smiling because average memester has more common sense than Catholic bishops 👇