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cassini · « **on:** June 17, 2025, 12:57:11 PM »

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Every other year, the Vatican Observatory outside of Rome gathers together a couple dozen budding astronomers from all over the world. This year's group met with Pope Leo on June 16. The Pope talked to them about the theme of the 2025 program: Exploring the Universe with the James Webb Space Telescope.

Addressing this year's Vatican Observatory summer school students, the Pope considered the first moments of creation:

Pope Leo XIV said: 'This year’s Summer School - I am told - is devoted to the theme, Exploring the Universe with the James Webb Space Telescope. Surely, this must be an exciting time to be an astronomer! Thanks to that truly remarkable instrument, for the first time we are able to peer deeply into the atmosphere of exoplanets where life may be developing and study the nebulae where planetary systems themselves are forming. With Webb, we can even trace the ancient light of distant galaxies, which speaks of the very beginning of our universe.

Since the Catholic Church was founded, the pagan idea of aliens has been condemned as heresy.
In 748AD, Pope Zachary I declared heretical the belief that stars were suns with similar worlds like Earth around them and that on these bodies are other intelligent beings. In 1459 Pope Pius II rejected the doctrine ‘that God created another world than this one.’ In 1591, Pope Gregory XIII’s Corpus of Canon Law was expanded and included the heresy ‘having the opinion of innumerable worlds.’ Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 and one of his many heresies was that aliens exist.

Next Pope Leo XIV considered the first moments of creation:

"Surely, this must be an exciting time to be an astronomer!" Pope Leo told the students, noting how that "truly remarkable instrument" has enabled us to "trace the ancient light of distant galaxies, which speaks of the very beginning of our universe." (THIS IS BIG BANG COSMOLOGY, THE 3.7 BILLION YEAR BEGINNING.)The authors of sacred Scripture, writing so many centuries ago, did not have the benefit of this privilege. Yet their poetic and religious imagination pondered what the moment of creation must have been like.' IN OTHER WORDS DO NOT BELIEVE THE POETRY OF GENESIS AND ITS 6-DAY CREATION 6,000 YEARS AGO. BE MODERNISTS AND DO WHAT SCIENTIFIC SCHOLARS TELL YOU EVEN IF MANY ARE ATHEISTS AND AGNOSTICS.

Only a few weeks into his papacy Pope Leo XIV tells children aliens could be evolving. He also says more planets are evolving, whereas after Adam’s fall, St Paul teaches creation lost its perfection and entered a ‘state of journeying’ towards imperfection and decay, not perfection as Pope Leo XIV asserts. ‘We know that all creation groans and travails in pain until now,’ wrote St Paul, until the Lord delivers it from its slavery (Romans 8:21-23).
So the universe is breaking up not forming as the new pope tells the kids.

‘[St] Thomas Aquinas also denied the claim that there are multiple worlds. Like Hippolytus, he attributed this false claim to those who did not acknowledge the ordering wisdom of God. St Thomas declared: “Those who posit many worlds do not believe in any ordaining wisdom, but in chance, as Democritus, who said that this world and infinitely many others came from a concourse of atoms.”’

THAT IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POPE LEO XIV.

Author Topic: Pope Leo XIV tells kids to look out for aliens (Read 121 times)

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Pope Leo XIV tells kids to look out for aliens