Pope Leo XIV hosted the world’s most senior exorcists at the Vatican, who reportedly warned him of a terrifying global rise in “occultism, esotericism, and Satanism.”

By Paul Thigpen - Are we on Earth alone with God and the angels in this vast universe? Do we humans share the cosmos with any other intelligent forms of life created by God? The Catholic Church has made no formal, authoritative pronouncements on the existence, or even the possibility, of extraterrestrial life.

For months, Peter Thiel, has warned of what he sees as an imminent threat from the Antichrist, an entity portrayed in some Christian traditions as one of Jesus’ ultimate enemies.