No one should be surprised if we find life elsewhere in the universe, according to Vatican astronomer and Tablet columnist Br Guy Consolmagno. The Jesuit scientist examines the question further in a book out next month entitled Would You Baptise an Extraterrestrial? Consolmagno, who has recently been appointed president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, the observatory’s fund-raising arm, said: “The general public is going to be, ‘Oh, I knew that, I knew it was going to b
25 September 2014, The Tablet
Alien mission
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