The Vatican’s astronomer has stated that it’s okay to believe in aliens.
We can’t decide what’s more ridiculous: that the Vatican, with its science-hostile history, has an astronomer, or that there are people in the world who felt relief that their faith in little green men wasn’t at odds with their desire to be good little Catholics.
My first thought was that the Catholic Church announcing =out of the blue, for no discernable reason= that it’s okay to believe in aliens is a bit like your woman announcing, apropos of nothing, that she’d never cheat on you.