The Vatican Speaks of an Alien Savior

This is probably the strangest blog that I have ever written.  I read a book by Cris Putnam and Thomas Horn, two writers that have been speculative in the past.  But this wild subject was jaw-dropping—it was hard to believe—but they supplied lots of proof, even more than in the past. And their conclusions are too radical to ignore.  So let’s take a look at it.  We’ll start by looking at the Jesuit priest Guy J. Consolmagno, a leading astronomer who often is a spokesman for the Vatican.  He is brilliant; he has worked for NASA and taught at Harvard and MIT.  Some of his time in 2013 was spent at the Vatican observatory at the summer residence of Pope Francis in Castel Gandolfo, Italy; the rest of his time, since, is at Mt. Graham in Arizona as Director (more on that later) and he is also President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation.  He is close enough to the Pope that he can be called his friend.

His time in public forums is lecturing on the subject of science and religion; specifically, would you believe, extraterrestrial life and its potential impact on the future of faith.  He authored a booklet entitled Intelligent Life in the Universe: Catholic Belief and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life. It was first authorized by Rome, but they changed their mind; it was pulled by the Vatican publisher in 2005, and is no longer available.  (This suggests that the higher authorities might have believed him, but decided the timing was not right to introduce it.)  But our authors persuaded him to send them a copy of this work.  Here is a partial quote, in which he stretches Jesus’ words in John 10:16 to a strange conclusion:

“…other sheep I have, which are not of this fold:  them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice…” 

Consolmagno’s interpretation:  “Perhaps it’s not so far-fetched to see the Second Person of the Trinity…coming not only as a Son of Man but also as a Child of other races.”

His reference of contrast between Man and “other races” says that he believes Jesus was referring to alien life when He said “other sheep…not of this fold.”  The acceptable interpretation of the passage is that Jesus is speaking about Gentiles, “not of this (Jewish) fold,” being evangelized for salvation through Him.  There are many references in Paul’s epistles to the effort to assimilate the Gentiles into faith. 

Jesuit Consolmagno was not alone in his belief about alien life.  Numerous Vatican astronomers, many of them Jesuits, are believers.  And the Vatican believes this enough to lay out a lot of cash looking for alien life--witness the purchase of Mt. Graham, and the attachment of expensive advanced scopes.  It is 80 miles from Tucson, and skirts Indian territories.  Indians, in fact, consider Mt. Graham to be one of the four holiest mountains in the Americas, and tried to stop construction of the observatories.  A large binocular telescope, one of the world’s most advanced optical telescopes, has a new device between its twin mirrors.  Officially, it’s a “Large Binocular Telescope Near-Infrared Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research.”  And, yes, that name suggests it was very expensive.  Strangely, someone in the Vatican shortened it to L.U.C.I.F.E.R.--a name for the devil.  This name actually means ‘morning star.’)  Our authors traveled to Mt. Graham for interviews.  They noticed how Jesuit astronomers are earnestly searching for intelligent alien life.  Surprising to Messrs Putnam and Horn also was the Jesuit astronomers’ frequent reference to UFOs as well. 

Oh, yes…UFOs.  I, like a majority of Americans, was not a believer.  But what shocked me, on research, is the belief in them from sensible and scientific people—even many of the earlier astronauts.  Here is a list of believers and comments:

Edgar Mitchell.  The former NASA astronaut claimed in 2009 that alien life exists but that the US government was covering up the evidence.  Mr Mitchell, who was part of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission, made the claims in a talk to the fifth annual X-Conference – a meeting of those who believe in UFOs and other life forms.  He also said he had attempted to investigate the 1947 'Roswell Incident', which some believe was the crash-landing of a UFO, but he had been thwarted by military authorities.

He said: "We're not alone. Our destiny, in my opinion, and we might as well get started with it, is [to] become a part of the planetary community. ... We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.  I urge those who are doubtful: Read the books… start to understand what has really been going on. Because there really is no doubt we are being visited.

The universe that we live in is much more wondrous, exciting, complex and far-reaching than we were ever able to know up to this point in time."

Gordon Cooper wrote a letter addressed to the United Nations in 1978 asking the organization to set up a research program to study UFOs. In 1951 when the astronaut was piloting an F-86 over Germany, he spotted saucers.

Bill Clinton has openly spoken out about extraterrestrial life and UFOs and has been very forthcoming about his belief that E.T.s exist and that we’re not alone. Presidents may not be immediately privy to all the nation’s secrets, as Clinton claims to have had aides research Area 51 and Roswell during his presidency.  “If we were visited someday I wouldn’t be surprised,” Clinton said in an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live that aired in April 2014. “I just hope it’s not like ‘Independence Day.’ … It may be the only way to unite this increasingly divided world of ours. Think about [it,] all the differences among people of Earth would seem small if we feel threatened by a space invader,” he said.

Jimmy Carter, US President from 1976 to 1980, promised while on the campaign trail that he would make public all documents on UFOs if elected. He said: "I don't laugh at people any more when they say they've seen UFOs. I've seen one myself."

General Douglas MacArthur, the Korean and Second World War soldier, said in 1955 that "the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets. The politics of the future will be cosmic, or interplanetary".

J Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI from its inception in 1935 to 1972, said of a famous incident when flying saucers were allegedly fired at over Los Angeles in 1942: "We must insist upon full access to disks recovered. For instance, in the LA case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination."

Monsignor Corrado Balducci, a Vatican theologian, said: "Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its embassies in various countries, such as Mexico, Chile and Venezuela."

Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain: "I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth."

Ronald Reagan saw a UFO during a 1974 Cessna Citation flight.  He was with three other passengers. He alerted pilot Bill Paynter to the UFO, which was described as being elongated and moving at an incredible speed. Reagan told the story to the Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau chief Norman C. Miller, according to the Discovery Channel.  He said, "I looked out the window and saw this white light. It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and I said to him: 'Let's follow it!' We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light.  We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens.  He expressed thoughts on the matter similar to Clinton’s:  He said in a speech to the United Nations in 1987, according to MSNBC: “I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”

Mikhail Gorbachev, the USSR's last head of state: "The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously."

Richard Nixon: "I'm not at liberty to discuss the government's knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject."

And let’s not forget one of our smartest Christians, Dr. Walter Martin, who founded Christian Research Institute in 1960 and who authored the famous textbook, The Kingdom of the Occult. In a portion of his 1970 UFO presentation, he not only took the UFO phenomenon seriously, but he was also an eyewitness to a flying saucer. 

OK, let’s just say, on wild speculation, that there have been UFOs—aliens who have visited earth.  What would that mean?  Well, our authors Putnam and Horn believe that IF this has happened, these were visits by demons to prepare us for the devil’s greatest deception of all time. What might happen is, they eventually would land, show themselves to be much smarter than man; why not, demons are smart—when they are under a master strategist, Satan.  And, being from another dimension, they can perform unbelievable tricks as well.  The story that they could spread is, they created, or to use a popular term, “seeded” us.  And they stand ready to give us fantastic scientific and medical knowledge.  We could live a much longer time.  We could feel immortal, as gods.  And we could change our belief system to worshipping them, or their god.  With their presence as proof, it's possible that most people will believe this (in a desire for longer life), and a world religion will be born.  Christians, who believe in the “old, Neanderthal” theology of sin, judgment, blood and sacrifice, would be directly persecuted for trying to stop man’s evolution into the future.

As you can see, this directly feeds into the Bible’s vision of the future.  (I have other blogs on the future here).  I have always wondered, frankly, how a world religion, specifically mentioned in Revelation, would be possible in this conflicted world. As is intimated by two of our believers above, these invaders could suggest that all of mankind would have to decide on this new religion and man’s purpose and origin. That’s the only way I see to a world religion. But like I said—this is all a gigantic deception by the devil to pull us away from the real God.

But here’s another brain-blowing revelation—certain important Jesuits, with a lot of influence, believe this scenario and have expressed it.  Let’s take a look at Jesuit George V. Coyne, former director of the Vatican Observatory and its Advanced Technology Telescope—the one in Mt. Graham which is expressly looking for extraterrestrial life.  In addition to his duties as a Jesuit, he was a professor in the University of Arizona’s astronomy department, as well as associate director of the Steward Observatory.  He appeared with Richard Dawkins advocating a deistic form of Darwinism (hint: This blasphemes the Genesis record of Creation).  Jesuit Coyne stunned the high priest of atheism by promoting a radical form of pluralism, the idea that all religions lead to the same God.  (P.S. God does not hold to this theology, as many Scriptures attest).  Coyne stretches the bounds of Catholic orthodoxy, even given Rome’s embrace of postmodernism.  On another occasion, he claimed that the Scriptures are scientifically inaccurate obscurantisms--music to the ears of secularists and pagans universal.  It seems Malachi Martin was right:  In his book The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church (1987), Martin asserts there is a “satanic cabal” among Jesuits, and he lamented that this sort of postmodernism has become the stock and trade of third-millennium Jesuitism.

Or let’s have a listen to Rome’s heralded demonologist, Monsignor Corrado Balducci (he died in 2008).  He was a theologian of the Vatican Curia, (governing body at Rome), a long-time exorcist for the archdiocese of Rome, also a friend of  pope Benedict, and a Prelate of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. No Catholic demonologist has more clout.   He asserted that extraterrestrial encounters “are not demonic, they are not due to psychological impairment, and they are not a case of entity attachment.”  Of course, this begs the question—How does he know? He further fulminates that “We don’t even have to waste a thought on the devil and his demons…they are purely spiritual beings, limited in their activity by God, and not able to bring all their hatred to us.”  (His suggestion that they are limited to the spirit realm is defying Scripture, which in many places show how angels—what demons are, only they became bad angels—have taken on material form). 

Or, how about a listen to Notre Dame theologian Thomas O’Mera, who is on the forefront of Catholic exotheology with his book Vast Universe, and his interviews with the Huffington Post.  Here is his blasphemous statement on Jesus’ claims about limitations of salvation:  “Is Jesus so central a figure that only he and his Middle Eastern religious world can reveal God?”  Of course, the fact that Jesus IS God should certify His centrality and ability to reveal God. This modernism also affected Vatican II, as one of its more influential figures in molding it, Karl Rahner, has proposed that a sincere Hindu or Buddhist can be saved without knowledge of the Gospel.  This view was explicitly endorsed during Vatican II. 

I should mention that Rome has never admonished any of the men mentioned above, despite their un-Biblical statements, nor removed them from any of their influential positions.       

   

Now I hope you’re ready, because I have the last bit of mind-blowing material for you.  Fr. Coyne (see above) was at least partially traditional when he said, “Should intelligent (alien) life be found, the Church would be obliged to address the question of whether extraterrestrials might be brought within the fold and baptized.”  In 2009, the Vatican had a 150^th celebration of publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species. (Christian churches were long hostile to Darwin because his theory conflicted with the literal biblical account of creation; but the Catholic Church never condemned Darwin, as it condemned and silenced Galileo. Pope John Paul II said that evolution was "more than a hypothesis;" and he has never been contradicted by popes since).  A leading American scholar of biology, Prof. Francisco Ayala, told the conference that the so-called theory of intelligent design, proposed by Creationists, is flawed.  "The design of organisms is not what would be expected from an intelligent engineer, but imperfect and worse," he said.

"Defects, dysfunctions, oddities, waste and cruelty pervade the living world".  So the Catholic rulers agreed (any speaker has to submit an outline of his speech ahead of time) to having a speaker tell them that the choice they have, is either an imperfect designer-God, or Darwinism.  I have to disagree, folks—any imperfections we have is due to our sin, and our responsibility for it.  Scriptures are clear that God created the world perfect.

The latest word on the evolution of man starts with Jesuit priest Guy J. Consolmagno (see earlier).  He called his job reconciling ”the wildest reaches of science fiction (which he doesn’t think is fiction) with the flint-eyed dogma of the Holy See.”  He believes in “the Jesus Seed,” which says that every planet that harbors intelligent life may also have had a Christ walk across its methane seas.  Further on this is from the May 2008 L’Osservatore Romano (a Vatican approved newspaper), recording an interview with a Vatican spokesperson, Father Funes, who wrote “The Extraterrestrial Is My Brother.”  He was asked whether extraterrestrials need to be redeemed.  His answer:  “God was made man in Jesus to save us…if other intelligent beings exist, it is not said that they would have need of redemption.”  Thus, he asserts that some extraterrestrials are morally superior to men--as if he knew.  He asserts in his book Brother Astronomer:  Adventures of a Vatican Scientist that they may come here to evangelize us. Yes, we need to learn a new gospel from the aliens.

But let me give you one more infamous quote:  In a paper for the Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science website, Father Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti—an Opus Dei theologian of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome—says these “spiritual aliens” should be respected.  He states that this would not immediately oblige the Christian “to renounce his own faith”….but that such a renunciation could come soon after as the new “religious content” originating outside Earth is confirmed as reasonable and credible.  Once it is verified, we are obliged to “conduct a re-reading of the Gospel inclusive of the new data.”  This is explained more thoroughly by former Vatican observatory vice director Christopher Corbally in his article “What if There Were Other Inhabited Worlds?”  He concluded that Jesus simply might not remain the only Word of salvation.  He quotes:  “Christ..is not necessarily the only word spoken to the universe…to aliens, it does not have to be a repeated death-and-resurrection…” (But Christ is the only Revelation of God, the Logos, the Word--says Scripture.) 

So, with such radical assertions, and backing, do Jesuits and Catholic hierarchy want us to throw away Scripture? 

My question to all this is, what is the alien gospel that they speak of aliens redeeming us?  What is its source?  I believe to have a world religion, if they exist, these "aliens" are really demons--and their source is Satan. Their gospel would be the same one Satan gave to Eve--"ye shall be as gods."  Because long, pleasant lives are waiting for us.

One final quote from Monsignor Balducci:  Extraterrestrials “were already interacting with Earth.”  This idea is repeated by Fr Malachi Martin:  “the highest levels of Vatican administration know what’s going on in space, and what’s approaching us…”  

So there you have it.  These Catholic “prophets” are preparing the world to listen to a new Gospel, and it's getting ready to happen now.  Their longing for extraterrestrials to teach us may lead many people away from the real Gospel, to eternal death.  They say, let’s throw out the old, get on board with the new, right?  No, wrong.  Let’s pray that none of this nightmare will ever happen. 

Acknowledgement:  Putnam and Horn, Exo-Vaticana:  The Vatican’s Astonishing Plan for the Arrival of an Alien Savior