Just up until recently, people who talked about the presence of aliens were considered a bit wacko. But, for some unknown reason, now it’s quite trendy to say “Well maybe life on other planets does exist” and that we should prepare for an alien contact.
Pope Francis, who continues to surprise us all, said that he would be willing to baptize even Martians if they were to arrive at the Vatican.
The Vatican has not always been open to new ideas. Take, for example, Galileo, when he revealed that the planet Earth was not the center of the universe.
Thanks to a telescope and constant observation, Galileo discovered that the Earth did not stand still but, instead, evolved around the sun. The Catholic Church could not tolerate a theory where man and the Earth were not the center of everything. So Galileo was denounced as dangerous to the faith and the Inquisition sentenced him to permanent house arrest.
In 1979, Pope John Paul II had to admit that Galileo had been right. Maybe that’s why Pope Francis, to avoid another “brutta figura”, has expressed his willingness to baptize Martians. But will they want to be baptized?
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