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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 discov...

The Catholic intellectual tradition stands ready to help humanity interpret and process the fact that we are not alone in the universe.

The "Golden Dome" at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. (Wikimedia Commons/Michael Fernandes) 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...

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 abso...