{"id":6284,"date":"2009-11-18T21:58:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T05:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/11\/vatican-holds-conference-on-extraterrestrial-life-international-space-fellowship\/"},"modified":"2009-11-18T21:58:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T05:58:27","slug":"vatican-holds-conference-on-extraterrestrial-life-international-space-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/11\/vatican-holds-conference-on-extraterrestrial-life-international-space-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Holds Conference on Extraterrestrial Life | International Space Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2009\/11\/3-580x434-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" alt=\"3-580x434-300x224.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/spacefellowship.com\/2009\/11\/11\/vatican-holds-conference-on-extraterrestrial-life\/\">\n<p>Though it may seem an unlikely location to happen upon a conference on astrobiology, the Vatican recently held a \u201cstudy week\u201d of over 30 astronomers, biologists, geologists and religious leaders to discuss the question of the existence of extraterrestrials.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the statement made last year by the Pope\u2019s chief astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, that the existence of extraterrestrials does not preclude a belief in God, and that it\u2019s a question to be explored by the Catholic Church. The event, put on by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, took place at the Casina Pio IV on the Vatican grounds from November 6-11.<\/p>\n<p>[From <a href=\"http:\/\/spacefellowship.com\/2009\/11\/11\/vatican-holds-conference-on-extraterrestrial-life\/\" ><cite>Vatican Holds Conference on Extraterrestrial Life | International Space Fellowship<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though it may seem an unlikely location to happen upon a conference on astrobiology, the Vatican recently held a \u201cstudy week\u201d of over 30 astronomers, biologists, geologists and religious leaders to discuss the question of the existence of extraterrestrials. This follows the statement made last year by the Pope\u2019s chief astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/11\/vatican-holds-conference-on-extraterrestrial-life-international-space-fellowship\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vatican Holds Conference on Extraterrestrial Life | International Space Fellowship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1Dm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}