'' MSNBC - The Vatican Seeks Signs of Alien Life! ''

So, Vatican is 'starting' to think in these terms ? Think not, I think the Vatican knows perfectly well what is going on, they know all about this issue..

Like the Vatican muzzles their way into Mount Graham and building a telescope isnt just for fun or an intrest in the stars.
There is a clip with Malachi Martin,which I will post here also, it is from 1987 I think, and he say that : the knowledge of what is going on in space, and what is approaching us.

Vatican searches for Aliens. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church.

"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, an astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory.

Funes, a Jesuit priest, presented the results Tuesday of a five-day conference that gathered astronomers, physicists, biologists and other experts to discuss the budding field of astrobiology — the study of the origin of life and its existence elsewhere in the cosmos.

In Februari 1954 Pope Pius XII received Los Angelos Bishop James Francis McIntyre, who provided him with an extraordinary report. Two days before, at the request of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the bishop had been part of a delegation witness to a clandestine U.S./extraterrestrial meeting at Edwards Air Force Base. This event was the meeting that occurred in California at Muroc Airfield (which later became Edwards Air Force Base) of an alien delegation with President Eisenhower, attended by Bishop McIntyre. The meeting was filmed by the U.S. military with 3 16mm cameras, placed at different points, loaded with color film and spring drive motors; that is because each camera operator had to change the film every 3 minutes and because in the presence of the aliens, electric motors did not work. In total they shot 20 minutes of film in 7 rolls, each of them 30 meters in length.

At the end of the meeting, each member of the Earth delegation swore never to reveal to anyone what he had seen and what he had heard about the aliens. It was impressed on Bishop McIntyre before reaching Rome, that his oath included the Holy Father. The bishop rejected this, and took his report to the Vatican.

Originally posted by ChemBreather
'' MSNBC - The Vatican Seeks Signs of Alien Life! ''

I think the Vatican knows perfectly well what is going on, they know all about this issue..

Hi ChemBreather, you are absolutely right by that, I am also sure they know indeed very much about this issue.
I thought perhaps this could be interesting for the discussion about it here.
It’s an excerpt from the “Disclosure project briefing document” of Steven Greer.

It is the Testimony of Monsignor Corrado Balducci, once a Vatican theologian and an insider close to the Pope then.

Please take notice of the fact that his statements are not made on behalf of the Vatican.
You can read about that in this interview called

“Many saints believed in extraterrestrial life: Vatican Monsignor”.

Monsignor Balducci is a Vatican theologian and an insider close to the Pope. He has been featured on national Italian television numerous times to express that extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon and "not due to psychological impairment".

In this testimony he explains that not only the general populous but also highly credible, cultured, and educated people of high status are recognizing more and more that this is a real phenomenon. He goes on to speak about the extraterrestrial people as part of God’s creation and that they are not angels nor are they devils. However they are probably more spiritually evolved.

CB: Monsignor Corrado Balducci
SG: Dr. Steven Greer

CB: … We have come to the point that we can’t anymore deny that there is something that is happening, that something is happening here in this field of ufology, not just flying saucers, but there might be actual people, beings, extraterrestrial beings…

I want to speak as a theologist right now. To be so skeptical is against normal common sense, it’s against reason.
Human testimony is the most common way of communication and dialogue.
Because, when we listen to people, we have to have faith that what they are saying is true.
It’s a dialogue between one who says something and believing what the person has to say, or not believing what the person has to say.
But if we go ahead like this, and this is the real point that really moved me as a theologian, if we continue saying this isn’t true, then what’s going to happen?
Then whatever human witness testimony we have for anything else will not be given the importance deserved to witness testimony.
And this witness testimony, if it becomes diminished will have a lot of negative repercussions: individual negative aspects, social negative aspects, and religious aspects.
And especially for what concerns the Christian religion…
It’s also possible for another reason: God. God in his wisdom wouldn’t have created only us as humans.

SG: In America, there have been some reactionary fundamentalists who have said that these are the work of the devil? What do you think of this?

CB: The devil has nothing to do with this! I haven’t talked about this publicly in the past, but angels and devils don’t need [space]craft; they don’t need the flying saucers.
They don’t need these things. God would never allow the devil to show humanity this kind of manifestation in such a great form. He would never permit this.
Don’t even think about it being the devil…

And it says in the Bible, everything that exists in the universe is in the creation divine. There are no extraterrestrials which are not part of the divine creation…