The world of Today and Reality

Fig . Extra terrestrials,#allien..# Fr. Clinton Sensat  I'm seeing a lot about aliens. I'm sure it's due to the recent headlines. So I thought I'd offer some insight into the mainline Catholic approach to this, at least as I understand it.  First, there is nothing in Catholic teaching that forbids aliens. We already know of nonhuman creatures with intelligence- angels -and it is entirely possible that Neanderthals and Denisovans and all such, while definitely possessed of rational and immortal souls, were not descendants of Adam and Eve, who may well have been the first homo sapiens.  Second, good Catholic theology NEVER makes sweeping generalizations about scientific fact in the absence of scientific evidence. Let's imagine social media was available three hundred years ago, and rash men asserted with certainty that dinosaurs could not exist due to their reading of Genesis, and that any supposed dinosaurs were really demons. Boy, would they be embarrassed today.  S