"I'd Love to Baptise an Alien"

This is the headline (preserving the British spelling of the word baptize) from a newspaper article about a scientist associated with the Vatican.

First, let's go back to 2008. At that time, the United Kingdom's The Independent newspaper featured an article that began with the following:

Pope's astronomer insists alien life 'would be part of God's creation'

By Peter Popham in Rome  Thursday, 15 May 2008

The Vatican's official newspaper has endorsed the possibility that the universe could contain...