intelligent aliens'god's children'

Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away, there could be souls waiting to be saved, according to the Pope's astronomer. Brother Guy Consolmagno said any intelligent aliens living elsewhere in the universe should be considered God's children.

Brother Consolmagno told the British Science Festival at in Birmingham: “Going back to the Middle Ages, the definition of a soul is to have intelligence, free will, freedom to love or not to love, freedom to make decisions...any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul.”

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