Vatican Says Aliens Could Exist
May 14th, 2008, by: Rev. DanFrom the BBC:
Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space.
Father Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory near Rome, is a respected scientist who collaborates with universities around the world.
The search for forms of extraterrestrial life, he says, does not contradict belief in God.
The article doesn’t seem to include the American Catholic response which was to suggest that we build a huge-ass dome to cover the entire United States to protect the economy from extraterrestrials who obviously don’t have work permits. William Donohue, President of the Catholic League, was quick to point out that building a dome isn’t enough: “What if the aliens are mole-people and attack our economy by building tunnels to get underneath the dome?*”
* For what it’s worth, Bill Donohue didn’t actually say that, but probably finds E.T.’s glowing finger to be frightengly homoerotic.

