Vatican: We Are Ready For Exo-Vaticana Aliens

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Vatican: We Are Ready For Exo-Vaticana Aliens

March 7, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor

So, just as a thought exercise, suppose a flying saucer landed in St. Peter’s Square during the pope’s weekly general audience. What would that mean for the Catholic faith? As it happens, Pope Francis is three years ahead of us. “If an expedition of Martians arrives and some of them come to us and if one of them says: ‘Me, I want to be baptized!’, what would happen?” the pope said during morning Mass in May of 2014. Simple. For the pope of the peripheries, no matter how distant they may be, the Church does not turn others away. Even if Pope Francis were able to keep his cool, anyone who has ever seen a sci-fi movie where aliens visit Earth knows that the general expectation is widespread panic, with religions being the first to crumble. Outside Hollywood, real believers seem more composed. According to a 2011 study for the Royal Society, about 90 percent of believers felt that if intelligent life were to be discovered on other planets, they would not have a crisis of faith.

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