Matt Walsh, EWTN, Catholic Answers all fall for the alien deception

 Catholic Inc. doesn't seem to understand that belief in extraterrestrials turns Catholic dogma into rubble.

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David MacDonald

LifeSiteNews) — As Disclosure Dayapproaches, extraterrestrials are in the news, movies, documentaries, books, and government “transparency” files. It’s reminiscent of the COVID media blitz.

Catholic media personalities and UFOs

Even as Matt Walsh expressed disappointment in the “grainy” government UFO files, he said “I’ve been a UFO believer for so long.”[1] In another video he admonished doubters:

[C]onservatives tend to be more religious … [they] think they can’tbelieve [in aliens] because it would call their faith into question. There is nothing … out there in the universe … that would call your faith into question. … The Bible … [is] focused on what is happening here [on earth] … you can be open-minded.[2]

 Catholic authors who promote ETs, such as Jimmy Akin (Catholic Answers), Father Robert Spitzer (EWTN), and Vatican scientist Brother Guy Consolmagno, have been on the podcast circuit. TAN Publishing is promoting the late Paul Thigpen’s attempt to normalize alien belief in Catholicism.[3]

 Journalist Robert Duncan promoted ETs on Catholic News Service (CNS).

Podcasters Lila Rose, Trent Horn, and Chris Stefanick platformed ET promoters, with no opposing interviews. Father Mike Schmitz and traditionally-minded Brian Holdsworth correctly warned us not to become distracted with UFOs while simultaneously floating the faulty rationale that there could be other biological lifeforms in this “big” universe.

Matt Fradd interviewed Jimmy Akin and the late Paul Thigpen. It was almost four hours of unbridled ET promotion. After an avalanche of comments requesting balance, Matt invited Daniel O’Connor to present an opposing view but then apparently ghosted him. Daniel responded with “Who Spooked Matt Fradd?” which went viral.

ET-promoting “Catholic” YouTube videos have exceeded 2 million views, with millions more on other platforms.

LGBT-friendly Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., kicked an exorcist out of his diocese for simply suggesting UFOs are diabolical activity. The priest, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, was a 20-year veteran with an impeccable track record. EWTN News reported the story as if the exorcist was at fault. The message is clear, like COVID and LGBT politics, that dissent is not permitted.

Catholic Inc. doesn’t seem to understand that belief in extraterrestrials turns Catholic dogma into rubble.[4]

During the Arian heresy, half the priests and bishops went bad. Cardinal John Henry Newman said the lay faithful held the Church together during that crisis. That hour appears to have arrived again.

ET belief is a gateway drug into the New Age

Gifted apologetics legend Jimmy Akin is a good example of where the ET rabbit hole leads. On Pints with Aquinas, he speculated about sacramental marriage between aliens and humans, if humans can have sex with aliens.[5] Then he defended Freemasonry, which is condemned by the Vatican.[6] Now he’s teaching psychic studies at Rhine.[7] His Mysterious World increasingly and carelessly dives into phenomena the Vatican warned us about in 2003:

New Age Spirituality is … spiritual narcissism or pseudo-mysticism … strange and exotic beings … extraterrestrials … psychic powers and occult…[8]

When Matt Fradd asked how alien belief could be reconciled with Mary’s elevated position in heaven, Jimmy Akin mused:

Well, if there are other mothers of Jesus out there, they wouldn’t be as high as our Mary.

Wait! Aren’t aliens supposed to be “superior” to humans?

Jimmy says:

It’s not always demons … if UAPs[9] … blow up and leave fragments of metal and stuff, we need to go with the premise that they are physical objects.[10]

There is no such evidence. Father Chad Ripperger, an exorcist, asserts demons are capable of all documented exotic “UAP” activity.

Wherever there is deep-seated belief in aliens, there follows a whole parade of darkness and other occult practices.

We’re being groomed for a pseudo-religion

The argument for non-rational micro life on other planets is a wedge issue, like incest and rape in the abortion debate. The micro life discussion always ends up being about UFO visitations to earth, “because the Church hasn’t ruled on ETs, don’t ya know!” Strangely, these alien visitors are always humanoid looking, between 4-8 feet tall. Why not the size of a bacteria or the moon? Because ET promoters have made aliens in their own image.

The mainstream pseudo-religion that this fuels teaches us:

• Aliens provide a “science-based” spirituality of love and peace, which absorbs “divisive and archaic” world religions.
• Aliens are superior; they taught Jesus to bend the laws of physics and gurus how to open their chakras.
• Humans can communicate with ETs via CE5 meditation.[11] (Guess who receives the call?)
• The Bible is outdated.[12]
• ET deniers are uneducated; they don’t “follow the science” (pseudo-science).
• Conspicuously absent are Jesus’ words, “I am The Way, the Life and the Truth, no one comes to the Father except through me.”[13] and “Repent and be saved.”[14]

More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/matt-walsh-ewtn-catholic-answers-all-fall-for-the-alien-deception/?utm_source=FB&fbclid=IwZnRzaASWJCFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeEXCcvCubakmhCjx0iD2GVtHwXvOF9brS5yoNkLOKC-VDj29d6vDBE86q6S0_aem_UfftNiuioNBPaRs9jxPTog

Schneider: Loss of faith among bishops?

Bishop Schneider to @MattGaspers on the loss of the faith in the hierarchy: 

“A remarkable number of high ranking clergy have no more the Catholic faith. 

They want another Church: half protestant, half worldly, adapted to the impression of the world.

Or have even lost the Catholic faith…There are a remarkable number of them over the past 60 yrs”

They’ve promoted this desire to change the Catholic faith”

Source: @MLHaynes

No Excommunications Here

The latest morally dangerous fantasy: Masses celebrating sodomy.

They’re promoting the new religion! No penalties needed. 

For the SSPX, who want to remain Catholic and preserve the sacraments for that reason? Only the rod of excommunication.

Incompatibility Problems

@JChimirie66677

.@Keir_Starmer, your statement says you have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets.

With respect, tolerance is not the issue. Nobody tolerates a near beheading on a residential street in Belfast. The question your statement carefully avoids is prevention. And prevention requires honesty about a pattern your government has consistently refused to name.

A man in his thirties, a Somali national, pinned a man to the ground on a residential street and stabbed him repeatedly in the face and neck. Members of the public intervened with a hurling stick. A woman required hospital treatment for the stress of witnessing it. This happened in Northern Ireland, a place that has known more than its share of violence, and even there residents said they had never seen anything like it.

Your government has presided over record small boat crossings. It has failed to proscribe the IRGC despite repeated promises. It has blocked the grooming gang inquiry for a year before being forced to concede it. It has spent £10 billion on asylum accommodation contracts. It has actively resisted measures that would have reduced the number of unvetted individuals entering and remaining in this country.

The victims of these attacks are not statistics. They are British people, going about their lives on their own streets, who were failed before the attack happened. Failed at the border. Failed by a system that prioritises the rights of those who arrive illegally over the safety of those who were already here.

Your thoughts are with the victim. So are ours. The difference is that thoughts are not policy. Thoughts do not secure borders. Thoughts do not remove individuals with no right to be here. Thoughts do not protect the next victim, whose name we do not yet know, on a street we cannot yet identify, from an attack that has not yet happened.

How many more before the thoughts become action?

June 25, 2026: The Wanderer Catholic Newspaper

 

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Rome: Church tradition trumps USCCB policy

@PetriOP:

This business about kneeling for Holy Communion was settled long ago. In fact, the USCCB was subtly corrected on the matter in the publication of the 2010 American translation of the 2000 edition of the Missale Romanum. Here's what happened...

In 2000, the third edition of the Missale Romanum was promulgated by St. John Paul II, which included a revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal (i.e., the GIRM). Every episcopal conference could then make adaptations proper to their own bishops' dioceses as long as the Holy See approved those modifications.

In 2002, therefore, this revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal was issued for the United States with the approved adaptations for the United States. 

Paragraph 160 of that 2002 US GIRM said: "The norm for reception of Holy Communion in the dioceses of the United States is standing. Communicants should not be denied Holy Communion because they kneel. Rather, such instances should be addressed pastorally, by

providing the faithful with proper catechesis on the reasons for this norm."

Communicants couldn't be denied Holy Communion for kneeling, but they should be "addressed pastorally." Keep in mind, we were still using the 1972 translation of Mass found in what was called then the Sacramentary.

In 2004, the then-Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments at the Holy See issued an all-encompassing document addressing deficiencies and abuses regarding the Most Holy Sacrament called Redemptionis Sacramentum.

In paragraph 90 of that document, the Holy See affirmed: "'The faithful should receive Communion kneeling or standing, as the Conference of Bishops will have determined', with its acts having received the recognitio of the Apostolic See. 'However, if they receive Communion standing, it is recommended that they give due reverence before the reception of the Sacrament, as set forth in the same norms.'"

Note the Holy See's insistence here on the norm that any determination by an episcopal conference on these matters must have the approval (the recognitio) of Holy See.

The following paragraph (91) says this: "In distributing Holy Communion it is to be remembered that 'sacred ministers may not deny the sacraments to those who seek them in a reasonable manner, are rightly disposed, and are not prohibited by law from receiving them'.  Hence any baptized Catholic who is not prevented by law must be admitted to Holy Communion. Therefore, it is not licit to deny Holy Communion to any of Christ’s faithful solely on the grounds, for example, that the person wishes to receive the Eucharist kneeling or standing."

Fast forward to 2010 after the US Bishops approved an English translation for the 2000 Missale Romanum, it's sent to Rome to be approved, but NOT WITHOUT a change in the US GIRM at paragraph 160--a change that wasn't reported at the time as being requested by the USCCB. In other words, it's a change that the Holy See simply made on its own authority.

Unlike the 2002 US GIRM at 160, the 2010 and CURRENT US GIRM at 160 doesn't mention any pastoral  issue needing to be addressed about the faithful kneeling to receive Holy Communion. Presumably, this is because the Holy See doesn't think it is a pastoral issue. 

The 2010 US GIRM, approved by the Holy See and changed from the 2002 version by the authority and initiative of the Holy See, now says: 

"It is not permitted for the faithful to take the consecrated Bread or the sacred chalice by themselves and, still less, to hand them on from one to another among themselves. The norm established for the Dioceses of the United States of America is that Holy Communion is to be received standing, unless an individual member of the faithful wishes to receive Communion while kneeling" (and cites Redemptionis Sacramentum, paragraph 91).

Thus, in 2010, the Holy See changed the US GIRM specifically to remove any sense of kneeling being a pastoral issue. Yes, standing is the norm in the United States, UNLESS a member of the faithful wishes to receive Holy Communion while kneeling.

Sources in the replies:

Saint Francis de Sales: Never try to please your enemies

 "If we give in to the world, and laugh, dance, and play as it does, it will pretend to be scandalized; if we refuse to do so, it will accuse us of being hypocritical or morbid. If we adorn ourselves after its fashion, it will put some evil construction on what we do; if we go in plain attire, it will accuse us of meanness; our cheerfulness will be called dissipation; our mortification dullness; and ever casting its evil eye upon us, nothing we can do will please it. It exaggerates our failings, and publishes them abroad as sins; it represents our venial sins as mortal, and our sins of infirmity as malicious. St. Paul says that charity is kind… but the world is unkind; charity thinks no evil… but the world thinks evil of every one, and if it cannot find fault with our actions, it is sure at least to impute bad motives to them, whether the sheep be black or white, horned or no, the wolf will devour them if he can.  Do what we will, the world must wage war upon us. If we spend any length of time in confession, it will speculate on what we have so much to say about! if we are brief, it will suggest that we are keeping back something! It spies out our every act, and at the most trifling angry word, sets us down as intolerable. Attention to business is avarice, meekness mere silliness; whereas the wrath of worldly people is to be reckoned as generosity, their avarice, economy, their mean deeds, honorable. There are always spiders at hand to spoil the honey-bee’s comb. Let us leave the blind world to make as much noise as it may, like a bat annoying the songbirds of day.  Let us be firm in our ways, unchangeable in our resolutions, and perseverance will be the test of our self-surrender to God, and our deliberate choice of the devout life."


—St. Francis De Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Part IV, ch. 1.