This is classic:

“How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere? Just as we consider earthly creatures as ‘a brother,’ and ’sister,’ why should we not talk about an ‘extraterrestrial brother’? It would still be part of creation.” - Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory

The Vatican has released a statement regarding the possibility of life on other planets. The official stance is that aliens would also be God’s creations. I know almost nothing about the Bible, but isn’t Genesis explicitly human-centric? I guess this is what happens when you take a 2000 year old faith and try to maintain its relevancy.

I’d like to conclude with a shout-out to all my Martian/Klingon/Gallifreyan/Ewok brothers and sisters across the cosmos. If you’d like to carpool to mass on Sunday, I’m down.