{"id":938,"date":"2009-11-12T12:53:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T12:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2009\/11\/12\/vatican-prepares-for-extraterrestrial-disclosure\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T12:53:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T12:53:47","slug":"vatican-prepares-for-extraterrestrial-disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/vatican-prepares-for-extraterrestrial-disclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican prepares for extraterrestrial disclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 9px;\">November 12, 9:26 AM<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"absmiddle\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/image.examiner.com\/img\/greydot.gif\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">Honolulu Exopolitics Examiner<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"absmiddle\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/image.examiner.com\/img\/greydot.gif\" \/>Michael Salla, Ph.D.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"hidefrompromo\" style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #333333;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope Benedict gives a blessing at Vatican City\" height=\"193\" src=\"http:\/\/image3.examiner.com\/images\/blog\/EXID2383\/images\/Pope_Benedict.jpg\" width=\"297\" \/><br \/> &#0160; Pope Benedict gives a blessing at Vatican City. Photo: AP<\/div>\n<p>The<br \/>\nVatican has just completed a five day conference on astrobiology where<br \/>\nscientists convened to discuss the detection and implications of<br \/>\nextraterrestrial life. A major driving force behind the conference was<br \/>\nthe Director of the Vatican Observatory, the Jesuit priest Father<br \/>\nGabriel Funes. In May 2008, Funes gave an interview to the Vatican\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<br \/>\nL\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Osservatore Romano newspaper saying that the existence of intelligent<br \/>\nextraterrestrials posed no problems to Catholic theology. The<br \/>\nconference itself was officially convened by the Vatican&#39;s Pontifical<br \/>\nAcademy of Sciences, chaired by its religious leader Bishop Marcelo<br \/>\nSanchez Sorondo, and was held on private Vatican grounds. Together with<br \/>\nFunes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 2008 interview and subsequent public comments by him, the<br \/>\nconference demonstrates a welcome openness by the Vatican on the<br \/>\npossibility and implications of extraterrestrial life.&#0160; The Vatican\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<br \/>\nopenness to discussion of extraterrestrial life is no accident. It is<br \/>\npart of an openness policy secretly adopted by the United Nations in<br \/>\nFebruary 2008. In fact, the Vatican is playing a leading role in<br \/>\npreparing the world for extraterrestrial disclosure.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>cont: <span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\"><\/span><\/span><a class=\"tweet-url web\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ylxnu54\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ylxnu54<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 12, 9:26 AMHonolulu Exopolitics ExaminerMichael Salla, Ph.D. &#0160; Pope Benedict gives a blessing at Vatican City. Photo: AP The Vatican has just completed a five day conference on astrobiology where scientists convened to discuss the detection and implications of extraterrestrial life. A major driving force behind the conference was the Director of the Vatican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}