Corrado Balducci

Corrado Balducci (May 11, 1923, in Italy – September 20, 2008 in Italy) was a Catholic theologian of the Vatican Curia, a close friend of the pope, a long-time exorcist for the Archdiocese of Rome,

Career Balducci graduated in 1954 from Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica, the Vatican training institute for priests who will be future papal ambassadors, or nuncios. Balducci worked as an exorcist for the Archdiocese of Rome. He was also a member of the Congregation for Evangelization and the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.

He also condemned rock music, which he believed "includes satanic subliminal messages, pushing evil and suicide". Balducci told a 1998 magazine interviewer that he believed "UFO entities were not demonic" and that they should be investigated by science "and not the world of angels or the Virgin Mary or the demons...not as a divine or demonic incident, but a physical reality". Balducci's remarks were later misrepresented and distributed on the Internet by UFOlogists as "a Vatican announcement of UFO reality".

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Books Diabo: ...Vivo e Atuante no Mundo, O (paperback, 2004) Il diavolo (Grandisaggi) (1994) Adoratori del diavolo e rock satanico (1991) The Devil "Alive and Active in Our World" (paperback, 1990)