{"id":3568,"date":"2025-10-27T13:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/pope-leo-xivs-astronomer-would-baptise-alien\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:06:59","slug":"pope-leo-xivs-astronomer-would-baptise-alien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/pope-leo-xivs-astronomer-would-baptise-alien\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV&#039;s astronomer would baptise alien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-10-27 13:06:58<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s astronomer would be up for baptising an alien.<BR><br \/>\nFather Richard D&#8217;Souza believes the creatures would be &#8220;children of God&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nAsked if he would perform an alien baptism, the 47-year-old director of the Vatican Observatory replied: &#8220;Yes, yes. Theology would have to reimagine itself and take into consideration these other beings.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;They are all part of God&#8217;s creation. They would be children of God. I believe in a benevolent Creator. He is behind everything.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nHowever, he insisted that the extraterrestrials being would have to &#8220;reimagine itself&#8221; if humans are first to make contact with them.<BR><br \/>\nAddressing the problems, he added: &#8220;We do believe that baptism has to be in the presence.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The question would be how to reach them or how they would reach us. These are practical problems to solve before we even talk about baptism.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-10-27 13:06:58 Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s astronomer would be up for baptising an alien. Father Richard D&#8217;Souza believes the creatures would be &#8220;children of God&#8221;. Asked if he would perform an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3570,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions\/3570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}