Intelligent aliens 'would be God's children'

According to the Pope’s astronomer, any intelligent aliens living elsewhere in the universe should be considered God’s children – no matter what they look like.

Brother Guy Consolmagno, who speaks at the British Science Festival at Aston University, Birmingham, tomorrow, said: “Going back to the Middle Ages, the definition of a soul is to have intelligence, free will, freedom to love or not to love, freedom to make decisions...