Catholic Belief And Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
If aliens were found, would they have souls? Would the Catholic Church send missionaries to spread the Gospel? Jesuit Brother (and Vatican astronomer)
Guy Consolmagno has just published a short book with the Catholic Truth Society on "Intelligent Life in the Universe - Catholic belief and the search
for extraterrestrial intelligent life" with answers to these questions.
(Intelligent Life in the Universe - Catholic belief...)
Brother Consolmagno said his aim with the booklet was to reassure Catholics "that you shouldn't be afraid of these questions" and that "no matter
what we learn, it doesn't invalidate what we already know" and believe. Scientific study and discovery and religion enrich one another.
He stated that if new forms of life were to be discovered, it would not mean "everything we believe in is wrong," rather, "we're going to find out
that everything is truer in ways we couldn't even yet have imagined." Brother Consolmagno does not take a narrow dogmatic view. Here is his answer
to the question "Can aliens be made in God's image?"
"The traditional belief is that they are referring to the aspects of the soul - intellect and free will. The ability to know that we exist, that
God exists and the freedom to choose to love or not love. Anything, whether it is an intelligent computer or an alien with five arms - if they have
those aspects, seems to me they'd be in the image and likeness of God."
(Brother Consolmagno - BBC interview
www.catholicnews.com...
more revelations of the same Ilk...
are we seeing a pattern here??
what does this mean??? - "we're going to find out that everything is truer in ways we couldn't even yet have imagined."
sounds like disclosure.
And this is coming from a Vatican Jesuit Astronomer???
surely all this is great evidence for a forthcoming disclosure?
[edit on 20-4-2007 by Shadoww]