Vatican: It’s OK to believe in aliens.

Once again, the AP is treating not-news as if it were news.

Catholics have always believed that human beings are not the only intelligent creatures. In fact, human beings are not even the majority. There are many more angels than there are human beings.

Regarding corporeal intelligent creatures, read the Baltimore Catechism No. 2, St. Joseph Edition. It says right in there that it’s possible for there to be intelligent creatures on other planets because God has infinite power. Read C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy. Read Miracles, which talks about alternate universes.

The real question would be whether other corporeal species would have original sin (since they would not have inherited it from us). If so, what kind of redemption (if any) would be possible for them? Would they be in a state of pure nature?

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