"Some Catholic Theologians and Extraterrestrials"

"Some Catholic Theologians and Extraterrestrials" By Giorgio Piacenza Father Karl Rahner, influential theologian of the Catholic Church, uses the term "Dwellers/Inhabitants of the Stars", admitting the possibility of other stories of salvation and multiple reincarnations of The Word or Logos. Theodore Hesburgh, who was president of the University of Notre Dame emphasizes that since what most reflects God is freedom and intelligence over the characteristics of matter, then we can assume that he has created something more than abundant matter, in other words , to other beings provided with intelligence in the universe. Also, the priest Hans Kung, an influential theologian of the Catholic Church, also wrote that the possibility of another intelligent life in the Universe should be granted. Guillaume de Vaurouillon, a 15th-century Franciscan scholastic, proposed that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ had universal value, as long as there are other intelligent and rational beings in the cosmos. He also postulated (in opposition to Thomas Aquinas) that God could have created an infinity of worlds more perfect than ours. The Dominican friar and theologian Thomas O'Meara considers in his works entitled "Vast Universe" and "Christian Theology and Extraterrestrial Life" that Thomas Aquinas left the door open to the possibility that One of the Persons of the Holy Trinity will extend salvation to other intelligent beings in the cosmos and that we should not limit what the Divine can or cannot do, including the possibility of another later divine reincarnation. In the following link you can find O’Meara's work "Christian Theology and Extraterrestrial Life": http://cdn.theologicalstudies.net/60/60.1/60.1.1.pdf In the Middle Ages, the Dominican friar Tommaso Campanella said that extraterrestrial civilizations had not committed "original sin", but another type of sin more in line with them. Tommaso and the Dominican friar Giordano Bruno were some of those who proposed the concept of the “plurality of worlds.” Jesuit Father Domenico Grasso, a theologian at the Pontifical University of Rome, declared: “Why would all the perfection that God vastly bestowed on the universe be hidden without declaring the glory of it? Who writes a book that will never be read? " In addition, he mentioned the German theologian and Dominican priest Joseph Pohle, who in 1904 wrote the work "Celestial Worlds and their Inhabitants", where he points out: inhabited by beings that reflect the Glory of God in the beauty of their bodies and worlds, just as man does in a limited way in his world.” Grasso comments on this, adding: "but these are not angels, since angels are pure spiritual beings and can only indirectly perceive matter, just as we can only indirectly perceive the spirit world." The scholar and priest Januarius de Concilio pointed out in his book "Harmony Between Science and Revelation" that extraterrestrial beings are creatures "with intelligent substances attached to a kind of body." He also argued (like Monsignor Corrado Balducci) that they could be intelligences that are located between human beings and angels. (I estimate that some could partially be located there (in some aspects) but not necessarily all). Father Theodore Zebek wrote an article entitled "Theological Questions on Space Creatures" and published in the "American Ecclesiastical Review", where he states that the extraterrestrial beings mentioned in the Holy Scriptures do not they are prohibited by these. The Dean of the School of Sacred Theology of the Catholic University (in Washington, DC, United States), Father Francis J. Connell published an essay entitled "Flying Saucers and Theology", where he wrote: "It is good for Catholics to know that the principles of their faith are fully compatible with the most incredible possibilities about life on other planets." Sister Ilia Delio, Franciscan nun, theologian and scientist, accepts the probable extraterrestrial presence in the cosmos and tries to reconcile this fact with science and faith by creating a new cosmology called "EXOCRISTOLOGY". Please read "Christ and Extraterrestrial Life" at the following link: http://www.michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/Christ%20and%20ET%20Life.pdf and watch the following video in English titled "The Christian Life in Evolution": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDRvaqUjJkI Theologian John F. Haught (Georgetown University) in “Theology After Contact: Religion and Extraterrestrial Life” thinks that belonging to Christ after having contacted extraterrestrials would require a more radical Christian inclusivity than before. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith asked Jesuit Father Abbe Moigno to determine if the doctrine of “the plurality of worlds” contradicts catholic doctrines about creation, the incarnation, and redemption and he determined that it would not. This position coincides with that of renaissance Cardinal Nicolas de Cusa. The Salesian priest Don Andrea Beltrami used to pray for the inhabitants of other worlds in the XIX Century. There is an anecdote about the saintly, psychic, miraculous, stigmatist Father Pio of Pietrelcina recorded in Nello Castello’s book “Cosi Parlo Padre Pio” (Thus spoke Father Pio). He was asked if there were extraterrestrial beings and replied: “But what else could it be? Do you think that God’s omnipotence is limited to his small planet Earth?”