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Article: Controversial telescope is justified if just a single alien is converted. (Vatican Observatory at Mount Graham, Arizona ) (Editorial)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- January 22, 1993
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Vatican Observatory officials have been reaching for the stars, even invoking the possible evangelization of extraterrestrial life, as they scramble to justify what some claim is the desecration of an ecologically unique mountain. Environmentalists and the San Carlos Apache, an American Indian tribe, have opposed the international observatory - including a Vatican Observatory telescope - now under construction atop Mount Graham in southeast Arizona.
Jesuit Father George Coyne, Vatican Observatory director, recently told London's conservative Daily Telegraph that the Vatican had joined forces with NASA to search with the new telescope for extraterrestrial life. ...