VATICAN CITY - The Vatican's chief astronomer says that believing in aliens
does not contradict faith in God.
The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican
Observatory,
said that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be
other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.
In an interview published Tuesday by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore
Romano,
Funes said that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because
aliens
would still be God's creatures.
Funes said that ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting
limits" on God's creative freedom.
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Joseph Meehan
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