Cosmic Incarnation: A Catholic Perspective on Extraterrestrial Life, Salvation, and the Harmony of Faith and Reason

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A Catholic view, guided by John Paul II and Cardinal Schönborn, invites cautious openness to intelligent extraterrestrial life, holds that rational aliens would share human nature and could relate to Christ through the universal meaning of the Incarnation, potentially attaining salvation through him even without baptism, and that the cosmos points to God’s infinite creation and Christ’s universal lordship.