Our understanding of evolution, the vastness of the universe and the strong possibility of life on other planets raises questions about God and the doctrine of Original Sin. Yet Catholic theology offers some eloquent answers after the announcement this week that flowing water seems to exist on Mars, and the earlier discovery that the Earth has a bigger and older near-twin, Kepler-452b, frissons of excitement rippled across the land. Maybe there is life out there after all! And, if there is, what would the implications be for planet Earth? It is a time for imagination, for a courageous trust in Creation. “We belong to a reality greater than our own”, writes Diarmuid O’Murchu MSC, in his 2002 book Evolutionary Faith, “and it is now time to embrace the cosmic and pla