This will get more press than it deserves.
Christ as the “Little Prince” maybe?
.- The Director of the Vatican’s Observatory, Fr. José Gabriel Funes, said in an interview with the Vatican daily, L’Osservatore Romano, that believing in the possible existence of extraterrestrial life is not opposed to Catholic doctrine.
Fr. Funes says that taking the image of the lost sheep in the Gospel, “we could think that in this universe there can be 100 sheep, equivalent to different kinds of creatures. We, belonging to human kind could be precisely the lost sheep, the sinners that need the shepherd. God became man in Jesus to save us. In that way, assuming that there would be other intelligent beings, we could not say that they need redemption . They could have remained in full friendship with the Creator.” - Sante Pater
“Oprah! Get Saint-Exupery on the line!”
(Or maybe he’s been reincarnated.) Doesn’t Fr. Funes’ statement remind you of the wonderful novella “The Little Prince” by Antoine Saint-Exupery? The different planets, the sheep, the rose… the Little Prince dies in the end to return to his planet. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”- said the fox to the Little Prince.
It could happen.
Fun stuff as we approach Carnival… 
Adoro 
Mitchell
