The Vatican continues to prepare the world for disclosure. Consolmagno’s speech prompted Richard Hoagland to speculate on the possible nearness of disclosure.
“Intelligent Aliens” God’s Children
Yahoo News, UK and Ireland
Sept. 17, 2020
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100917/tsc-intelligent-aliens-god-s-children-4b158bc.html
Any intelligent aliens living elsewhere in the universe should be considered God’s children – no matter what they look like, the Pope’s astronomer has said.
Brother Guy Consolmagno, who speaks at the British Science Festival at Aston University, Birmingham, on Saturday, said: “Going back to the Middle Ages, the definition of a soul is to have intelligence, free will, freedom to love or not to love, freedom to make decisions…
“Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul.”
Should there ever be a Vatican mission to outer space, Brother Consolmagno might be just the person to lead it.
He admits to being a science fiction fan, which got him into astronomy, and says he would be willing to baptise an alien, but “only if they asked”.
Brother Consolmagno, whose appearance at the British Science Festival is unrelated to Pope Benedict XVI’s state visit, said: “I’d be delighted if we found life elsewhere and delighted if we found intelligent life elsewhere.
“God is bigger than just humanity. God is also the god of angels.”
But he did not think machines would ever become comparable to humans.
On physicist Professor Steven Hawking, who has claimed there is no need for a god to explain the origin of the universe, Brother Consolmagno said: “The whole idea of what creation means is not a case of who wound up the clock and sets it going, it’s the fact there’s a clock to be wound up in the first place.
“A god that started things up would be a pagan god. The god I believe in is outside space and time.”