Exorcist Diary #383: Can AI replace an Exorcist?

["St. Francis Borgia Helping a Dying Impenitent," Francisco Goya, 1788]

I was recently asked by a reporter if I thought that AI could replace an exorcist. At first, I thought it was a crazy question, but deeper reflection is warranted. A few days ago I was told by an airline pilot that autopilots already land planes better than humans. He thought AI could replace pilots. He added: "Take away pilot error and accidents would be extremely rare." Similarly, an MD radiologist told us: "Bots read mammograms much better already." So, what about exorcists?

This question cuts to the heart of what an exorcism is. Casting out demons is not a mechanical function. An exorcist does not simply say the proper prayers and use the right sacramentals. It is a personal encounter. In the person of the Exorcist, with his delegated ministry from the Church, the demons encounter the power and the person of Jesus Christ. It is only Jesus who can cast out demons; only Jesus has conquered the "strong man," ie, Satan (Mt 12:29).

Moreover, sacramentals like holy water, crucifixes, relics of saints and so forth, which the Exorcist uses, are conduits of actual graces given ex opere operantis, ie, the faith of those involved is key. The Rite of Exorcism is itself a sacramental. Thus the faith of the participants using the Church's sacramentals is critical. When someone puts a crucifix over their bed, it is not a magic talisman. Rather, it is an expression of the person's faith, however imperfect. Faith opens the soul to God's work and helps to make it fruitful in the person's life.

If a bot were to hold up a blessed crucifix and sprinkle an afflicted person with holy water, would it have any effect on a demonic presence? This is an interesting and complex question. Certainly a bot in itself cannot have a living faith. Although one could imagine that the faith of the priest who initially blessed the water and crucifix, combined with the faith of the afflicted person, could make the act somewhat fruitful. But in this case the bot is just an impersonal structure holding up the crucifix and sprinkling the holy water.

Even so, it would certainly be less desirable than having a priest in person using these sacramentals. In an exorcism, it is a consistent experience that demons HATE the presence of the priest, and, at the same time, it terrifies them. Demons are terrified of Jesus and his Church, which the priest makes present. No bot could ever do this.

I could imagine that AI might be somewhat helpful if a person's background information and comprehensive intake form were fed into the computer to be analyzed. Like analyzing a mammogram, I could well imagine that the computer would provide some helpful insights and even recommended prayers for a session.

However, even here, the role of the bot is limited. Over the years, I have found that diagnosis in a possible case of demonic affliction transcends analyzing all the information. There is a "taste" and an "inner experience" the Exorcist has when confronting a demonically afflicted person which is critical in making the right diagnosis. Discernment must remain not only a human function, but a function which is fueled by grace given by Christ to the Church.

Will I be replaced by a bot? No. However, I am not adverse to being open to computer assistance. But this must be monitored since the Evil One loves to mess with and manipulate technology. Jesus is Lord and so we trust in Him to guide and protect us in this new, very challenging era of technology.

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Sample of Feedback from Feb 2026 Online Deliverance Session

Review rating: 4.91 out of 5.0 stars (832 responses)

I cried throughout this entire prayer session with Msgr. Rossetti. It was amazing and so inspiring and it touched my soul!

We felt peace and joy…

I found out freemasonry was in my family a couple years ago. Evil influence was all around me and my family…I am noticing progress, a great deal of it compared to two years ago, many health issues still but progress continues.

A spiritual lifeline in a sea rife with darkness and despair.

Great prayers and community!

My son…joined us this evening for the entire session. He is now praying the rosary and going to mass. He went to confession for the first time in many years last week.

My 1st and It was amazing

Peace and calm afterwards thank you!

At the beginning of the session, I felt sleepy…After a while I was ok…I felt tingling in my hands and then my feet on and off throughout the session and even after. Many thanks to all at the St. Michael Center.

My husband, me and our daughter prayed with you tonight from Switzerland Geneva. I was amazed after the prayers finished our daughter said she felt peace and slept right away and myself I felt the peace of the Lord and His love in my heart.

These prayers were so powerful and i felt so much peace after the session…

This session was exceptionally great! I experienced so much releasing and freedom throughout the entire hour. Thank you so much Jesus!

Since I have started to participate in deliverance sessions I don't experience any sexual urges as I did before. I can say for certain that I have been delivered from sexual addiction I have struggled for years.

I feel lighter and spiritually cleansed.

I have a very hard life that I cannot even begin to express in words and any little blessing I receive or act of mercy, I am so grateful for it. And I love the prayers Father [said] in the session.

It was incredibly powerful. I'm so grateful.

This was a truly liberating experience that will help me overcome obsessive patterns…

I feel so good praying those special prayers not only for myself but for my family members. For healing. Physically and spiritually…It is the holiest hour of prayer I’ve ever experienced.

Thank you for these wonderful services! I’m so grateful to be able to pray with my fellow Christians…Last night, I slept well for the first time in weeks.

Tears but a sense of deep peace afterward.

I immediately felt free and light.

I felt all this oppression left, and the lethargy was much improved after tonight’s session

Came to the session feeling overwhelmed. As the prayers began I began to feel sleepy but remembered from previous sessions Monsignor mentioning this so I fought it. When he prayed to lift darkness, I found myself sighing deeply and feeling lighter. I had a greater sense of peace as the session ended. God bless you.

I do feel very peaceful…I have been dealing with a financial block on my life. Lots of voodoo in my family and jealousy. So I am so thankful as I wait [for] the Lord.

I always feel a tremendous sense of Peace

I watched the video this morning…I felt the Lord revealed some demons to me that I'd been holding on to without knowing.

I especially needed to hear Msgr. Rossetti explain that no life is wasted. I had been struggling with that, recently.

I was praying and hoping for Satan to leave me. I by some grace of God just returned to the Catholic Church last June. I've delved in some satanic rituals online and have committed some satanic sins…I have confessed my sins in confession. He still vexes me…As Fr. was saying the latin prayer My body shook.

Helps to encourage me to persevere in the spiritual life, I feel strengthened.

I'm a convert to the Catholic Church. My mother's family were very involved in the masons, eastern star etc…I have people in my family who mess around with the occult and I feel more at peace after this session praying and being prayed over about these influences…Thank you so much for this wonderful resource

I always feel at peace when the sessions end.

Very tired out of nowhere when it started, but the fatigue lifted soon. I felt lighter during several of the deliverance prayers, and I was crying in a healing way for several minutes.

My experience has been wonderful and very rewarding.

Thank you for this special grace and blessing.

…everytime I attend this sessions there will always be an overwhelming lifting of heaviness and pain. I even felt a right shoulder pain and pain on my head during deliverance but was gone after minutes after the prayer. God is always good.

These sessions have gotten me closer to the Lord and to my faith

I felt peace and courage

I could not stop smiling knowing by the power of God through Msgr Rossetti that God loves me and I love him.

Very peaceful…I have depression and terrible fear but these sessions help me so much. I sleep better. I can't live without them. I have been doing them for a long time. I can't thank you enough.

I love these sessions…

Thank you thank you thank you for doing this.

Well I vomited a lot…I am from…South America. I suffered sexual abuse when I was child so when you said that demons I have manifestations in my body like nauseas. It has been very difficult to liberate me and my child of the incest in my family and its consequences.

Excellent and overwhelming peace afterwards

I think I was delivered from self hatred, shame & a long standing death wish & oppression. I slept very well .

Thank you. The prayer session was effective in releasing layers of things. As Monsignor did the binding /sealing prayers after we rebuked particular spirits,I let out a lot of surprising burps then a huge burp! At last prayer another surprising big burp. My heart feels less burdened and free of emotional attachments..

I have trauma from childhood abuse. It was buried in my memories for years. In the meantime I married an alcoholic narcissist…Last night through [Msgr’s] prayers Immaculate Mary showed me her heart.

These monthly evenings are becoming a true blessing in my life.

I have been struggling with some depression lately and felt lighter after the session, like it had lifted, which brought me peace.

I feel blessed and loved after the session.

I could feel the power of Christ moving in me. I constantly battle with the demons of lust and anger, and I could feel them being pushed away. I know that it is a never ending battle here in this world, but we have the key with Jesus. I will be back next month.

Peaceful, calming, closeness to God

We are praying with my wife, who suffers from oppression (rooted in a generational curse - Freemasonic…) And it is a great help for us.

Dizziness and burping, my heart ra[c]ed and headache while praying to Remove Generational Spirits and when you mentioned the prayer to remove Masonry I got chills, in the remove divination [prayer] I felt so tired and Msgr was praying in latin prayers, felt super cold. However, felt warm and cozy in the Litany of Children of God. Felt loved.

I was physically relieved of a lot of tension in my body especially chronic pain from a herniated disk in my neck that I have had for over 30 years.

I always feel lighter and happier after these amazing sessions. Not only do I experience a sense of being delivered from the evil I unfortunately encountered (via yoga/ an occult energy worker)… I also find that Monsignor Rossetti always teaches me something more about God and the best way to live our life here on Earth.

I felt very tired especially during the Latin prayers which I think you said was a good indication that it is helping. I felt a lot better at the end.

I felt myself relaxing, feeling sleepy during the hour. This is not typical for me since I often feel anxious and on edge…Some oppression that causes despair was lifted and gone.

I felt some things leave. I went to confession yesterday for the first time in 41 years and only for the third time in my whole life and I slept better last night than I usually do…I just want to be free. I haven't felt free in my whole life.

I have been so inflicted and felt so rejected _ finally I feel God and the Church have not abandon[ed] me. Now I feel so blessed _ all the prayers, all the teachings!

It seems as I prepare for the monthly sessions havoc breaks loose and I get tired and something in my body hurts (sinuses, or head or stomach....) but I know God is bigger and wants me to "attend"...Memories of past rough experiences or hurtful people arise and I've been forgiving more and more and asking to be forgiven. I am filled with peace and hope and learning more.

Very beautiful.

Always peaceful & uplifting.

Thank you so much. The prayers were extremely powerful. While the session was going on, my daughter was screaming and sort of growling in the next room. I kept praying for her to receive all the prayers Fr. Stephen was praying with the Keys of St. Peter. I felt lots of movement in my abdomen area during the prayer to be freed from Masonic curses.

Total peace. I went into deep sleep at times. The house fills lighter.

Always feel strengthened and encouraged! Praise God!

Amazing!!!

I felt much peace. I believe that a spell or incantation was lifted as I feel more free around the upper part of my body and able to breath with more peace.

Excellent! Thank you!!!

Once again, I fell into a deep sleep on the floor, but I could hear the prayers on my PC and many times responded. My body would not get up but I wasn't worried because I knew I was in the arms of God…

It’s a beautiful experience and I am thankful to God for all of you. I find great comfort throughout most of session…where Father prayed in Latin, there were ugly visions that bombarded my brain. It’s almost as if the enemy was try to mock what was happening.

it was excellent, excellent, excellent.

I find the prayer session to be amazing. I've never participated in a Deliverance prayer session. My mother, brother and sister are very toxic, narcissistic and abusive towards me (and my father)…I forgive them. Thank you for all of your beautiful prayers and your help

A truly blessed and healing experience. I suffered an injury a couple of weeks ago and was in a lot of discomfort, barely able to walk. I attended the SMC online prayer session last night, and this morning, I felt significantly much better!

Enlightening. I feel my head is about to explode during Exorcism prayers. I am son of a 33 degree freemason.

I only found out about this at last moment, I signed in and was so open. I believe I received a healing. And some of the questions Father answered at the end, I swear they were for me. Especially the one about thinking I wasted my life.

This prayer session brought peace and calmness into my soul. Just what I needed.

I am coming back to my beautiful Catholic faith…I got into the new age in a big way, meditation, chanting, etc. The beautiful religion I was born into has everything I need and have ever needed.

I have depression, yet by the end of the session I had a smile on my face and I felt lifted.

Calming peace. Less self condemnation and self doubt

I woke up scared and with a dreaded feeling, but knowing that prayer session will help, it was difficult to keep awake during the session but persevered and stayed until the end and this morning I feel totally refreshed

It was very uplifting.

I was treated more like the servant of my family. Emotionally abused and put down. I took care of both my elderly parents until their death…I wept heavily when I got to the part that I needed to forgive them and my siblings who did not support me enough. Thank You!

Wow! That was really good! I felt so broken and mentally tormented today, but I listened to Fr Rossetti and his deliverance prayers & they brought me so much peace

At one point last night something in me shifted and I found myself crying - nothing outrageous, not ugly crying, but something very real seemed to release. It felt good and I was grateful to God, and for your ministry. Thank you!

I had turned to crystals and meteorites that supposedly had healing properties in the past…I still felt a connection to them…Our Lord Jesus Christ through your ministry has broken the hold they had on me.

I began to suspect demonic activity after some seriously troubling activity at our home…Now, after a year of monthly attendance, special session attendance, with participation in the sacraments and holy mass, my personal symptoms are gone and prayers for my parents are working! They returned to church!

This was my third session and I love it. It’s the same feeling I have after a good confession…unburdened and peaceful.

I had a beautiful experience tonight.

I always feel an intensity regarding casting out free masons. My grandfather on my mother's side was a 33 degree. During the session I sensed a strong and powerful influence going to my children and their families so I have a renewed hope for them.

I felt really hot at times. And I felt some nasty energies leave me. I also felt very relaxed and focused like I knew wholeheartedly I was doing the right thing. I cried as well during certain points and feel very relieved.

I didn’t know what to expect and it was so much more! I was very emotional, I felt free at the end.

During the session, where we are to forgive, I was compelled to think of when I was a child: I was made fun of for years. Once Msgr. finished his prayer, I started sobbing uncontrollably - couldn't stop, nor did I want to. It felt so good!

Many tears. Very powerful deliverance session…Your ministry is an absolute blessing.

Thank you. During the early prayers I realized that the sadness I often feel during formal prayers and mass stem from a sense of failure, regret that my life has not measured up to expectations. The prayers helped me understand that this feeling is not from God…

These monthly sessions are SO HELPFUL!!!!