Question:
What does the Church say about aliens? Do extraterrestrial life forms exist?
Answer:
The Catholic Church has no official teaching on the existence of aliens and life beyond the planet Earth. However, many theologians in the Church have speculated on the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe:
Alien Life Out There: Vatican Astronomer’s Take on Extraterrestials
Pope Benedict XVI’s Astronomer: The Catholic Church Welcomes Aliens
Catholics are free to speculate away about whether intelligent alien life exists out there and what it would mean theologically.
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