Catholic Perspectives on SETI: Jaki’s Analysis and the Question of Extraterrestrial Life
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Catholic thought, drawing on Jaki and figures such as Aquinas, Chesterton, Rahner, Lagrange, Bruno, and Pope Francis, weighs the possibility and value of extraterrestrial life, anchors creation in the Incarnation, and calls for cautious, reconciled science-and-faith dialogue in light of new evidence.