Saturday, November 12, 2005

Do Aliens Have Souls?

By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service


Galaxy-gazing scientists surely wonder about what kind of impact finding life or intelligent beings on another planet would have on the world.


But what sort of effect would it have on Catholic beliefs? Would Christian theology be rocked to the core if science someday found a distant orb teeming with little green men, women or other intelligent forms of alien life? Would the church send missionaries to spread the Gospel to aliens? Could aliens even be baptized? Or would they have had their own version of Jesus and have already experienced his universal or galactic plan of salvation?


Curious Catholics need not be space buffs to want answers to these questions and others when they pick up a 48-page booklet by a Vatican astronomer.


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