Uh, OK your Holiness. Whatever you say. What are they putting in the holy water at the Vatican these days?
It is called modern communication. In the context of a daily homily, it is a way of making a point that everyone is called to receive baptism, no matter how they might appear in the eyes of the beholder. Taken out of the context and put into a headline, it sounds as if the Pope has issued a bull on the salvation of extra-terrestrials when in fact all that he has done is made a valid point in an effective way at a daily Mass.
This rivals the fatwa forbidding Muslim travel to Mars.
For some species it’s Holy Ammonia.
If God created the universe then that included Martians. If the Martians are believers, then why should they be denied baptism?