Corrado Balducci
1923–2008A Vatican exorcist who argued that UFOs were physical realities, not demons, and urged the Catholic Church to reconsider its stance on extraterrestrial life.
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Corrado Balducci, a Catholic theologian and long-time exorcist for the Archdiocese of Rome, publicly argued in a 1998 magazine interview that UFO entities were not demonic and should be investigated by science as a physical reality, not as a divine or demonic incident. He invited the Catholic Church to reconsider its position on extraterrestrial life, a stance that was later misrepresented on the Internet as a Vatican announcement of UFO reality.
Balducci graduated in 1954 from the Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, the Vatican training institute for future papal ambassadors. He served as a prelate of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and upheld the Church's views on demonic possession, advocating exorcism for ostensible cases.
He also condemned rock music, which he believed included satanic subliminal messages pushing evil and suicide. Balducci wrote several books on diabolic possession, the devil, and rock music, including 'Adoratori del diavolo e rock satanico' (1991) and 'The Devil: Alive and Active in Our World' (1990).
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