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3 events here, 2008 to 2014, in date order.
Jesuit astronomer Jose Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory, told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano that the possible existence of intelligent life elsewhere does not contradict faith in God. The remarks were his personal view, not church doctrine.
The Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences hosted scientists at the Casina Pio IV from November 6 to 10, 2009, for a study week on astrobiology, covering the origin of life, habitable planets and the search for life and intelligence beyond Earth.
In a morning homily, Pope Francis imagined a group of green Martians, one of whom asks to be baptized, to show how shocking it was when Peter baptized non-Jews. The Vatican published the remark in its official summary of the May 12, 2014 homily.
