Aliens Will Be Bestowed With Souls Before Taking Over Earth (But Only If They Ask Nicely)

“Only if they asked.”
—Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno on the likelihood of his baptizing an alien, a question that came up after he talked about his sci-fi-borne love of the stars and noted to reporters in the UK that “any entity — no matter how many tentacles it has — has a soul.” It would seem that he’s even including the “narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America” that he railed against elsewhere in his Q&A; session in that soul census, which reads like something of a relative olive branch.