Vatican and Extraterrestrials Blog :

The Catholic Church has been pondering over whether there indeed is a far more technologically and intellectually advanced sentient species elsewhere in the galaxy?. Pope Francis apparently believes so and according to rumor he will not only announce his intentions to prepare the human race for ET contact. More evidence building up towards the Vatican's acceptance of Aliens was when the president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation confirmed that it is only a matter of time before alien life forms are discovered, which will pave the way to questions about God's relationship to intelligent beings outside our planet.

Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno speculates that the general public will not be to surprised when life on other planets is eventually discovered, and will react the same way it did when news broke in the 90's that there are other planets orbiting far off stars.

Consolmagno, who is a leading planetary scientist who has studied meteorites and asteroids as a astronomer with the Vatican Observatory since 1993, told Catholic News Service that discovery of alien life will not prove or disprove the existence of God, but will pave the way to questions on salvation and how it related to intelligent species.