Msgr. Rossetti

Response: The Church's teaching is clear: demons cannot be converted.

"It is the irrevocable character of their choice, and not a defect in the infinite divine mercy, that makes the angels' sin unforgivable. There is no repentance for angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death" (CCC272). When they were created, angels were given full knowledge of their choice to serve God or not, and all the ramifications of that choice. Yet, irrationally, they choice not to serve: non serviam.

It is hard for us to understand their horrible choice. But evil is totally irrational, for demons and for humans... Angels and humans were both given the enormous gift and responsibility of free will. We cannot truly love God or others, unless we have free will. We humans cannot truly be made in God's image and one day enjoy the full fruit of union with God in heaven without free will. But once the angels exercised their free will and chose, and once human beings, after a lifetime of choices for or against God, have died their choice is irrevocable and eternal. May God give us the light and the grace to choose Him.