Br. Guy Consolmagno: Vatican Astronomer Bridging Faith and Science, From the Bethlehem Star to Extraterrestrial Life

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Br. Guy Consolmagno argues that faith and science can coexist and that baptism could be offered to extraterrestrial beings who ask, promoting respectful dialogue between religion and science through his Vatican astronomy work and his book with Fr. Paul Mueller.

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Meet the pope’s astronomer, who says he’d baptize an alien if given the chance

Br. Guy Consolmagno, a Vatican astronomer specializing in asteroids and meteorites, co-authored Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? with Fr. Paul Mueller to argue that faith and reason are compatible and that God is reason, promoting mutual respect over confrontation with a nuanced baptism stance of “yes— but only if she asks,” while his life includes MIT study, joining the Jesuits, Peace Corps service in Kenya, curating the Vatican meteorite collection, receiving the Carl Sagan Medal, and leading the Vatican Observatory Foundation from Arizona to raise awareness of the Vatican’s astronomical work, believing space exploration can unite humanity, noting that roughly 1 percent of budgets go to astronomy in both the Vatican and the U.S., describing himself as introverted and dialogue-oriented with a fondness for sci‑fi (referencing Interstellar), and planning to continue researching asteroid Vesta while reassuring believers that scientific inquiry does not threaten faith.