Well, there are thirty-five craters on the moon named after Jesuit astronomers. Maybe those who decide such things can find another hole up there, or somewhere, to name after this star gazing padre. Father Jose Funes does not believe that believing in outer space aliens compromises any Catholic doctrine. Not only does it compromise the Incarnation being the central event of all creation, not only does it compromise Our Lady’s singular privilege of being “THE” Immaculate Conception, not only does it make Genesis a myth, and original sin “a local problem,” and the Passion of Our Savior less than universal in its redemptive extension, but it makes a mockery of God’s wisdom in creating man in His own image and likeness, creating the soul out of nothing to inform the individual matter thus ennobling the human body and making man what he is, “a little less than the angels.”
The body was so formed by God to be animated by an intelligent soul. This was not by chance or evolution. No man ever had a non-rational creature for a parent. This nonsense is most assuredly heretical. And what does this do to the Catholic doctrine of the last judgment and the resurrection of the dead and re-creation of the world and the order and purpose of this world and the hierarchy of things? It makes the earth and the human experience and the Incarnation itself a mere sideshow. Are we going to share heaven with other non-Adamites who have some other kind of body? Will they be glorified monsters with a extra appendages, maybe eyes in the back of their head to get a panoramic view? Or will they be homo-sapiens from another earth-like planet? Or maybe there’s a mirror galaxy out there with another me and another you? Anything is possible when you discard all logic.
Telescopic star gazers are idlers. They achieve nothing good for anyone. At least if they put their eye in a microscope they could something worth while, like find a cure for some disease. So, how do they justify their vagrant idleness in galaxy surfing? They give lectures, or hold a media interview where they can expound upon their “idle words” and tickle people’s imaginations. What a vocation!
Vatican City, May 13, 2008 / 01:59 pm (CNA).- The Director of the Vatican’s Observatory, Fr. José Gabriel Funes, said in an interview with the Vatican daily, L’Osservatore Romano, that believing in the possible existence of extraterrestrial life is not opposed to Catholic doctrine. Full article here:
