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BGCS
Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ
Director, Vatican Observatory
Religious / VaticanScientific Research
Jesuit brother and planetary scientist who serves as director of the Vatican Observatory. Has written extensively on the compatibility of extraterrestrial life with Catholic theology. Famously stated the Vatican would baptize an alien 'if they asked.' His position represents the Vatican's official scientific engagement with the possibility of non-human intelligence.
Credentials
- -Director, Vatican Observatory (2015-present)
- -PhD Planetary Science, University of Arizona
- -MIT graduate
- -Author: Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?