E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church.
They have GOT to be f**king kidding.
Suggest you actually read up on the real history of the Galileo Episode. The Church has always supported science and technology, and in fact many science developments were done by church people (Mendelian genetics, geologic stratigraphy, the "Big Bang" theory, and a host of others).
The industrial revolution would have happened 200 years sooner than it did if Henry VIII hadn't disbanded the Catholic monasteries. Recent archeaology at monastic sites show that some English "techno-monks" were on the verge of discovering how to make steel far earlier than actually happened.