Vatican chief astronomer Father Jose Gabriel Funes, in a Washington Post story today, reports on an interview last year [video] in which the preist noted the possibility of "brother extraterrestrials" and that such poses no problem for Catholic theology. "As a multiplicity of creatures exists on Earth, so there could be other beings, also intelligent, created by God," Funes explained. "This does not conflict with our faith because we cannot put limits on the creative freedom of God."The statements by Funes are the latest in a string of comments in recent years 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.
Approximately 9 years ago the late Monsignor Corrado Balducci made similar news [video] when he said extraterrestrials [ETs] were actually already interacting with earth and that some of the Vatican's leaders were aware of it.
In 2005, Guy Consolmagno published a short book with the Catholic Truth Society on "Intelligent Life in the Universe - Catholic belief and the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life" to provide the faithful reassurance to the modern day questions being posed by the science of astrobiology.
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