Vatican wants to convert space aliens!
Tim Howard
Chronicles". Some priest went to Mars and tried to do the same thing.
The Martians told him it was not necessary because they were already
basically immortal.
From the BostonHerald.com
VATICAN CITY - E.T., phone Rome!
Four hundred years after locking up Galileo for challenging the view
that the Earth is the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in
experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its
implication for Catholicism.
�The questions of life�s origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in
the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration,� said
the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes of the Vatican Observatory.
Funes presented the results yesterday of a five-day conference of
astronomers, physicists, biologists and other experts discussing the
budding field of astrobiology - the study of the origin of life and its
existence elsewhere.
Funes said the possibility of alien life raises �many philosophical and
theological implications.�
University of Arizona astronomer Chris Impey said, �Both science and
religion posit life as a special outcome of a vast and mostly
inhospitable universe. There is a rich middle ground for dialogue
between the practitioners of astrobiology and those who seek to
understand the meaning of our existence in a biological universe.�
Thirty scientists, including non-Catholics, explored issues such as
�whether sentient life forms exist on other worlds.�
Church views have shifted radically since Italian philosopher Giordano
Bruno was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600 for speculating,
among other things, that other worlds could be inhabited.