DUBLIN, Ireland -The Pope has spoken out about the possibility of life developing on other planets. The Vatican has previously called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church. Yet nothing materialized from those discussions, and speculation continues to swirl that classified extraterrestrial documents remain hidden within the Vatican’s enigmatic archives.
Pope Leo XIV, who has occupied his position for merely a few months, has publicly declared that the possibility of life existing elsewhere in the cosmos is plausible.
During remarks at a gathering for attendees of a summer program at the Vatican Observatory in June – though only emerging publicly now – he said: “Thanks to this remarkable instrument, we are able for the first time to peer deep into the atmosphere of planets in other solar systems, where life could develop.
“The new technology also makes it possible to trace the ancient light of distant galaxies, which tells us about the origins of our universe”.
He then urged the course participants to utilize the observatory’s new telescopes and technology to “deepen our knowledge of the cosmos, of which we are only a small but significant part.”
In May, a former adviser to the Vatican said he believes Leo will address the possibility of aliens.
“I think that he is going to be the disclosure pope,” Daniel Sheehan, an attorney who once served as general counsel to the U.S. Jesuit headquarters in Washington, said Thursday on NewsNation’s “Banfield.”
Sheehan went on to claim details would emerge “in the same way that we are going to have a disclosure of what the American government knows about this in the next handful of years.”
This story appeared in Irish Star
