Vatican looks for space aliens; lays ground work for Inquisition II: The Sequal

(MSNBC)

Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church.

"How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere?" Funes said in that interview.

"Just as there is a multitude of creatures on Earth, there could be other beings, even intelligent ones, created by God. This does not contradict our faith, because we cannot put limits on God's creative freedom."

Not bad, it's a 'hey look, we're hip and with the times, we're using computers now' kind of thing.

But here's the troubling 'Oh, by the way...' part of the comments:

Funes maintained that if intelligent beings were discovered, they would also be considered "part of creation."

Right. I'm guessing that they'd be from the same part of creation inhabited by Aztecs, Incas, Mayans, Jews and 10th century Muslims. Just to name a few.

You know, the ones who take some "persuading" to "get it".