Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_aliens;_ylt=AjXLIIMOY1gcDiUTcD.prDCH...
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AndreaKnoll
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Funes recent L'Osservatore Romano interview, which has garnered much press, is not the first time the Vatican has gone on the record with regards to embracing the concept of alien life. A colleague of Funes', Brother Guy Consolmagno, the director of the Vatican Observatory's Research Group, which is based at Arizona's Steward Observatory, published a 48-page pamphlet on the subject in 2005 entitled Intelligent Life in the Universe? Catholic Belief and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life. In it, he posed many religious and philosophical questions about alien life: Do aliens have souls? Are they were subject to original sin? Do they need to be baptized and have a belief in Jesus in order to be saved? Do they even need to be saved? And if so, do we have the right to evangelize alien cultures?
- 4 years ago
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AndreaKnoll
