Is
The Vatican Easing Humanity Toward
Alien Disclosure?
Vatican chief astronomer Father Jose
Gabriel
Funes in a long interview with the
L'Osservatore Romano newspaper this
week
made news by saying there is a
certain
possibility of intelligent life
elsewhere in
the universe, and that such notion
"doesn't contradict our faith. How
can
we rule out that life may have
developed
elsewhere? Just as we consider
earthly
creatures as 'a brother,' and
'sister,' why
should we not talk about an
'extraterrestrial brother'? It would
still
be part of creation," he said. The
statements by Funes are the latest
in a
string of recent comments by Vatican
astronomers confirming a belief that
discovery may be made in the near
future of
alien life, including intelligent
life, and
that this discovery would not
unhinge the
doctrine of Christ. In 2005, another
Vatican
astronomer, Guy Consolmagno tackled
this
subject in a 50-page booklet,
Intelligent
Life in the Universe, in which he
concluded
that chances are better than not
that
mankind is facing a future discovery
of
extraterrestrial intelligence.
Approximately
7 years ago Monsignor Corrado
Balducci made
similar news when he said ETs were
actually
already interacting with earth and
that some
of the Vatican's leaders were aware
of it.