Posted on 12/16/2025 3:40:10 PM PST by CharlesOConnell
Fr. Chad Ripperger discusses the psychology of angels and demons, drawing from Catholic doctrine and his experience in spiritual warfare and exorcism.
The key points from his talk:
Lucifer's hatred for Our Lady
(0:00-1:42): Lucifer's anger towards God stemmed from the revelation of Our Lady's perpetual self-sacrifice, which exposed his pride. She consistently sacrificed herself without counting the personal cost, a quality that angels, unlike humans, don't possess in their decision-making process.
Angelic vs. Human Free Will
(1:44-4:23): Angels make decisions with absolute commitment—they are "all in" or "out." Their perfect comprehension of what they are choosing means their will becomes instantly and permanently fixed in good or evil. In contrast, human beings, being "dumb," make decisions by degree, and their will becomes fixed in something over time through repeated choices, fully solidifying only at death.
Malice in Demons
(3:09-3:51): Demons exhibit malice, which is the consistent act of maximizing damage. This psychological pattern is seen when every action taken leads to the worst possible outcome, a trait inherent in demons due to their fixed will.
Condemned Heresy of Universal Salvation
(4:26-5:17): The idea that demons or the damned can be rehabilitated and go to heaven (known as apocatastasis) was formally condemned by the Council of Constantinople. This belief is incompatible with being a Catholic, as the punishment for demons and those in hell is eternal.
Demonic Affliction and Specialization
(5:18-6:06): Demons afflict people based on an "inversion of their assigned task." Specific demons are associated with particular disorders; for example, Beelzebub, Baal, and Asmodeus are demons of impurity, while Asmodeus is linked to homosexual tendencies in possessed males. This indicates demons strategically target individuals based on their proclivities.
Angelic Knowledge and Understanding of Human Nature
(6:09-7:42): Unlike humans who abstract universal knowledge from particulars, angels first understand concepts perfectly. God infused them with the totality of all natures and concepts at their creation. This allows them to instantly comprehend any concept, including human nature, DNA, dispositions, appetites, emotions, and the interrelations of faculties.
Demonic Prediction and the End Times
(7:21-8:27): Demons can predict future events by understanding the nature of causes and how things are generally headed. They can observe complex states of affairs and know where they are leading, which is why they understand their time is short as certain "triggers" for God's intervention begin to align.
Demonic Observation and Strategy
(8:30-11:03): Demons possess perfect conceptual knowledge that they never lose, giving them an extreme advantage due to their intelligence. They know every material thing happening in the universe but must focus on specific things. They continuously observe human beings to identify patterns in DNA (proclivities, dispositions, inclinations to vices), behaviors (virtues, vices, spiritual weaknesses and strengths), and external manifestations of grace. This extensive observation, combined with their infused knowledge of warfare and perfect understanding of human nature, allows them to devise precise strategies to attack individuals, God permitting.
"Leftism" or "Progressivism", whether in the secular or ecclesiastical realm, reflects this tendency.
I would be interested in the source, Biblical or otherwise, for these thoughts.
I would be interested in the source, Biblical or otherwise, for these thoughts.In general: “Fr. Chad Ripperger discusses the psychology of angels and demons, drawing from Catholic doctrine and his experience in spiritual warfare and exorcism.”
He might be more specific concerning which thoughts are based on Catholic doctrine and which are based on personal experience in the YouTube video. Did you have anything in particular in mind?
Oh Good grief
: Lucifer’s anger towards God stemmed from the revelation of Our Lady’s perpetual self-sacrifice, which exposed his pride. She consistently sacrificed herself without counting the personal cost, a quality that angels, unlike humans, don’t possess in their decision-making process.
Unreal what some people will believe and espouse.
What is rejected is the mariolatry of roman catholicism.
It is rome that has perverted the Mary we see in Scripture and has turned her into an demi-goddess whose power rivals that of heaven.
. Even the chief demons can be compelled to answer the question, "what motivates you?"
Which includes promoting competing objects of spiritual devotion, which the holy, unselfish, virtuous, devoted mother of the Divine Son of God, according to the flesh. (cf. Rm. 9:5) would thus deplore.
Mary is now with her Lord, and is not suffering for the sins of man, but is looking forward to the day of the Lord and its judgments and full salvation, as with those who were martyred. (Rev. 6:10) But as for on earth and suffering, and not thinking of mortals above that which is written, (1 Co. 4:6) there is a certain man whom Catholicism rather marginalizes in its devotion relative to his impact.
Meaning a Jewish man who passionately sought to serve God even before his conversion, and who could even state that he had always "lived in all good conscience before God," (Acts 23:1) and to whom no sin is actually imputed to him after his conversion. And who sacrificially loved the church of God, meaning the body of Christ dear to him, at least as passionately as he once hated it.
And as regards his sufferings, by the grace of God, included (via his own inspired testimony in trying to bring drifting souls back to sound faith):
in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? (2 Corinthians 11:23-29)
...in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. (2 Corinthians 12:10,15)
And which was before even more suffering. Thank God he also is absent from the body and present with the Lord, (Philippians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 5:8) in paradise, as with the contrite criminal of Lk. 23 and those martyred saints, etc.
Question: Is THIS the thread that will last through the Christmas season, or will there be another?
Answer: It depends on whether the “usual suspects” get rounded up.
;^)
Thank you for a solid post daniel
Mary?
What happened to Jesus?
Did Mary get crucified for us when I wasn’t looking?
It’s easy to feel small amongst such giants of the faith.
I’m still aspiring to the dizzying heights of an unprofitable servant.
As always brother, thank you for the post.
Satan replacing God with a woman and coercing man to worship her.
And the RC cannot fathom why the reformation occurred, and why some people can come to a fairly reasonable conclusion their Pope(the office, not necessarily any individual) as being the Anti Christ.
Yes, at best we have only done that which was commanded us to do, while failing much in that. Yet God is rich in grace.
Well, glory to God for what is good, and it needed to be said.
The more the Roman Catholics speak, the more the term “Fantasy Feminist Christianity” becomes a real term.
The more we mention Mary the more the sons of Luther scream and degrade her.
All nations will call her blessed.
Whether you want to or not.
How am I “screaming?” How am I “degrading her?”
Oh right, I’m not. You just can’t defend your worship of her without resorting to false accusations.
There’s a logical fallacy for that. It’s called Poisoning the Well.
You mean the Bible that Catholics faithfully preserved for you to read...that one?
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