Aliens are our brothers in Christ

The Vatican has announced that belief in extraterrestrials - even the smart, ravenous and highly lethal kind - does not contradict faith in God.  While I could make any number of snarky remarks about the relative uptodateness of Catholic thought, Galileo, Bruno, the Inquisition, etc., I will simply content myself with noting that Monty Python knew this was going to happen a quarter century ago, and depicted alens coexisting with messiahs in Life of Brian.

The Vatican astronomer noted that denying that there is no life anywhere else in the universe is putting limits on the (presumably unlimited) creativity of God.  Sadly, the article does not go into more interesting territory - I’d like to see what Vatican policy is regarding missionary efforts to aliens, and whether the holy mother Church feels that the anal probing greys have souls.  Cause, if they abduct me, I’m killing them sumsabitches.  But I don’t want to commit a sin.