In a 2008 interview, astronomer and Vatican observatory director Jose Gabriel Funes said the Church wouldn't have a problem with the idea of intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.

2008年的一次采访中，天文学家和梵蒂冈天文台主任富内斯神父说；教会不应该对宇宙其他地方有智能生命的观念产生疑问。

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The Vatican Observatory is located inside the palazzo, complete with a telescope and a world-class collection of meteorites.

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The Vatican has its own Observatory, is exploring an open source ethos, accepts evolution, and on the whole has rejected its stereotypical medieval anti-science stereotype.

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