In February, when NASA announced the discovery of 7 new planets suitable for life, there was no doubt that contact with extraterrestrial intelligence was only a matter of time.
It is surprising that the only political force that foresaw this was … the Vatican. It turns out that Catholics have long declared their readiness to accept aliens into the bosom of the church, and the papal throne has its own space program.
“We have to open the doors and allow the alien being to enter. The church is open to everyone! - these words of the Pope a few months ago shocked the world.
Do not be surprised at them: the papal see has its own astronomers and even consultants on ufology issues. The Vatican has its own space program, which is better informed and technologically advanced than NASA. The Pope's heavy-duty telescopes in Italy and Arizona, USA, constantly scan space.
Priests-astronomers have been holding scientific conferences for at least 10 years, information about which is not available in open sources. Documents about space exploration and about human contacts with extraterrestrial civilizations are kept in the secret archives of the Vatican.
But evidence of successful research can be heard from church representatives. “We are not alone in the universe. Science is already moving forward and, most likely, in the near future we will learn about the existence of our new brothers and sisters, with whom we will exchange signs of peace. This will be the greatest day for the entire Christian world!”Pope Francis said back in April 2016.
The previous Pope, Benedict XVI, raised the topic of the availability of church sacraments for residents of other worlds - 10 years before Francis. "The action of the Eucharist is not limited to the boundaries of the Church, its significance and value have cosmic dimensions …" - said Benedict XVI.
Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno noted that aliens seeking baptism should receive it from the church, because "any living creature, no matter how many tentacles it has, has a soul."
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The Vatican's assistant on ufology, Rev. Corrado Balducci, said in 2006: “Now even the Holy Church can no longer ignore the existence of UFOs and at the same time quote a biblical psalm relating to the universe and its creatures - in other words, to extraterrestrial beings,” and showed on Italian TV a previously unknown photograph, where several UFOs fly in a group, forming a cross in the sky.
In matters of ufology, the Vatican was ahead of NASA by several years. In 2003, the papal curia became interested in space and took part in the creation of ICRANet - a network of international centers for relativistic astrophysics. Other participants in the program were the USA (Arizona and Stanford Universities), Italy, Armenia, and in 2011 - Brazil.
The so-called Specola Vaticana, a research institute with its own observatory, has existed in the Vatican for more than a century. It is curious that this organization is directly subordinate to the Pope personally.
Ekaterina Rybachek