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- MEMBER DEBUNKS VATICAN STORY
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- ParaNet Alpha 12/05 -- Contrary to a published story, there is no
- evidence that the Vatican has any plans to send missionaries into space to
- convert extraterrestrials to Catholicism, says a respected UFO researcher.
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- The story, which originally appeared in the London _Evening News_ in
- July, claimed that a Fr. Pierre Thorel of the Vatican University had set
- up a program to train missionaries to preach the Gospel to any aliens that
- may be encountered in space ventures. The story was later sent to the UFO
- Newsclipping Service by British Ufologist Timothy Good.
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- But John Andrews, Vice President of Testors Corporation and a Para-
- Net member in San Diego, says the story is bogus. "I contacted the editor
- of a regional Catholic Magazine," says Andrews, "who contacted the Cathol-
- ic Media Office in New York."
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- "They had heard of the story. Apparently there is no Fr. Pierre
- Thorel, there is no new Chair at the Alfonsian Academy in Rome, and there
- is no effort to develop 'missionaries in space.'"
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- Andrews, a pro-UFO researcher whose stated goal is to market the
- first authorized plastic model of a genuine flying saucer, says the story
- had him fooled as much as anyone. "I, too, was taken in...but only for a
- little while.
-
- "It proves the reason to verify whatever we hear."
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