Aliens and the Incarnation: Vatican Openness and Theological Debates on Extraterrestrial Life

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Gabriel Funes argues that discovering extraterrestrial life would be welcomed by the Church and would force Christians to rethink core ideas like the Incarnation, salvation, and being made in God’s image, with many theologians predicting that religion will adapt to a broader cosmos rather than fear it.

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Little green men might shock the secular public. But the Catholic Church would welcome them as brothers. That’s what Vatican chief astronomer and papal science adviser Gabriel Funes explained in a recent article in L’Osservatore Romano, the newsletter of the Vatican Observatory (translated here). His conclusion might surprise nonbelievers. After all, isn’t this the same \[…\]