The “Universal Church” is really starting to live up to it’s name.

From the Honolulu Exopolitics Examiner

The Vatican has just completed a five day conference astrobiology where scientists convened to discuss the detection and implications of extraterrestrial life. A major driving force behind the conference was the Director of the Vatican Observatory, the Jesuit priest Father Jose Gabriel Funes. In May 2008, Funes gave an interview to the Vatican’s L’Osservatore Romano newspaper saying that the existence of intelligent extraterrestrials posed no problems to Catholic theology…

…the conference demonstrates a welcome openness by the Vatican on the possibility and implications of extraterrestrial life.  The Vatican’s openness to discussion of extraterrestrial life is no accident. It is part of an openness policy secretly adopted by the United Nations in February 2008. In fact, the Vatican is playing a leading role in preparing the world for extraterrestrial disclosure.

Read the Article in much more detail Here >>.

Maybe  the Vatican is still trying to make up for that whole “Galileo Thing” by being forward thinking when it comes to the implications of extraterrestrial life for Catholic theology. The good news is that the church is leaning toward considering Aliens to be “brothers of humanity”; with the added bonus that as “our brothers” they also qualify for the salvation of Jesus Christ (note how quickly the church is willing to accept extraterrestrials into the flock but the homosexual crowd is still left waiting at the door – just sayin’).

The acknowledgement of extraterrestrial  souls-in-waiting-to-be-saved  portends well for the Vatican as the present earth-bound market appears grossly to be over saturated and inefficient a this time.