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COMMENTARY: The truth is, Catholics aren’t the enemy of science. If anything, we are, and for centuries have been, its biggest advocates.
An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope deployed in space. (photo: Adriana Manrique Gutierrez/NASA Animator / Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 4.0)
The James Webb Space Telescope could be coming closer to discovering a planet capable of sustaining life, most recently through its study of exoplanet K2-18b in the habitable zone where liquid surface water might exist around its star.
Our faith centers around God’s redemption of man on the Earth he created. So this raises the question: Can Catholicism stand if astronomers discover alien life?
To answer that, we need look no further than a few miles outside of Rome at the Vatican Observatory in Albano Laziale — the latest in a long line of papal observatories.
Though Vatican astronomers now travel to the Arizona desert to study the stars far from light pollution, the observatory stands as a physical monument that the Catholic Church not only welcomes astronomical discoveries, but itself probes the secrets of the universe. And whatever we find out there on K2-18b or beyond, be it alien life or nothing at all, our faith is big enough for everything God made.
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The James Webb Space Telescope could be coming closer to discovering a planet capable of sustaining life, most recently through its study of exoplanet K2-18b in the habitable zone where liquid surface water might exist around its star.
Our faith centers around God’s redemption of man on the Earth he created. So this raises the question: Can Catholicism stand if astronomers discover alien life?
To answer that, we need look no further than a few miles outside of Rome at the Vatican Observatory in Albano Laziale — the latest in a long line of papal observatories.
Though Vatican astronomers now travel to the Arizona desert to study the stars far from light pollution, the observatory stands as a physical monument that the Catholic Church not only welcomes astronomical discoveries, but itself probes the secrets of the universe. And whatever we find out there on K2-18b or beyond, be it alien life or nothing at all, our faith is big enough for everything God made.
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The Catholic Faith Is Not Alien to the Universe
COMMENTARY: The truth is, Catholics aren’t the enemy of science. If anything, we are, and for centuries have been, its biggest advocates.
