Vatican in Focus: Clergy Discipline, Bank Profits, AI in Sacred Art, and the Unresolved Debate on Extraterrestrial Life
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A broad group of Catholic thinkers and saints, including Luke Togni, Paul Thigpen, Diana Pasulka, Father Robert Spitzer, St. Athanasius, St. Basil the Great, St. Albert the Great, Étienne Tempier and Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, are exploring whether intelligent beings could exist elsewhere and how that would fit with faith, salvation, and the Beatific Vision, noting there is no official doctrine yet and urging careful, open inquiry while warning against sensational conspiracies.