Seen and unseen: The role of faith, reason in the search for alien life On: 6/17/2021, By Junno Arocho Esteves, , In: World .People use night vision goggles to look at the night sky during an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) tour in the desert outside Sedona, Arizona, in this Feb. 14, 2013, file photo. With the expected release this month of the U.S. Department of Defense s report on unidentified aerial phenomenon, Catholic News Service spoke to three experts on the potential discovery of extraterrestrial life and its theological implications. (CNS photo/Mike Blake, Reuters) .Three boys await the arrival of Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) hunter Kim Carlsberg of UFO Sky Tours to begin their search outside Sedona, Arizona, as darkness falls in the desert Feb. 14, 2013. With the expected release this month of the U.S. Department of Defense
Seen and unseen: The role of faith, reason in the search for alien life
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Editor’s note: This article was published in the May 26, 1990, issue of
America.
When the word “crisis” is applied to Roman Catholic theology in the United States, it usually refers to tensions between theologians and the Vatican. Beyond the headlines, however, there are developments going on in departments of theology and religious studies at Catholic colleges and universities that merit more attention than they have received. In a recent issue of
America (2/3/90), Thomas F. O’Meara, O.P., called attention to how “we are nearing a state of emergency in Catholic theological life in the United States.” He shows the need for more and better doctoral programs in Catholic theology. There are simply “no programs in many properly Western Christian and Roman Catholic areas.” Theology departments are woefully underfinanced in both their teaching functions and, es
Alien life looks more and more likely. Catholics are ready.
Religious traditions have always believed that we share the universe with angels, demons and other nonhumans. Photo by Albert Antony/Unsplash/Creative Commons
May 18, 2021
(RNS) I first met Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, head of the Vatican Observatory and sometimes called “the pope’s astronomer,” after an event on science fiction and theology we did at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture.
We ended up talking a lot about aliens. He agreed with me that the Catholic intellectual tradition would have absolutely zero problem with the idea of intelligent life that is, substances of a rational nature (the classic definition of a “person” in my field) on other planets.
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