The National Catholic Register portal (October 3, 2026) reports that Christopher Graney, an adjunct scholar at the so-called “Vatican Observatory,” appeared on EWTN News Nightly to promote his book A Universe of Earths: Our Planet and Other Worlds, Copernicus to NASA (Oxford University Press, 2026). Graney argues that modern astronomy reveals Earth to be “not an ordinary place” and that “the universe is certainly not full of worlds like Earth,” contrasting this with 19th-century astronomers like the Jesuit Angelo Secchi who believed the cosmos teemed with inhabited worlds. Graney dismisses theories that the Vatican conceals evidence of extraterrestrial life as “a lot more dull” than reality. The article notes that the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) visited the Specola Vaticana at Castel Gandolfo on July 20, 2025. This report epitomizes the neo-church’s capitulation to naturalistic scientism, substituting the regnum Christi for a cosmic spectacle that diverts souls from the one thing necessary: the salvation of immortal souls through the Kingship of Christ the King.
The Neo-Church’s Observatory: A Tower of Babel for the Space Age
The very existence of a “Vatican Observatory” in the conciliar sect is a scandalous misallocation of resources that should be directed exclusively to the salus animarum (salvation of souls). Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior” and that “the Church of God, by constantly providing spiritual nourishment to people, gives birth to and raises up ever new ranks of holy men and women.” The neo-church, however, parades its astronomers before the cameras of EWTN — itself a mouthpiece of the conciliar establishment — to discuss the statistical probability of “Earth-like planets,” as if the magnalia Dei (great works of God) were reduced to astrophysical data. This is the laicism condemned by Pius XI: “the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations; the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied.” The Observatory has become a shrine to the idol of Scientism, where the “pope” Leo XIV pays homage, signaling the total subordination of the pseudo-hierarchy to the spirit of the world.
Historical Revisionism: Secchi and the Evolution of Error
Graney cites the 19th-century Jesuit Angelo Secchi as a proponent of the view that stars were suns distributing “life and goodness” to “innumerable beings blessed by the hand of the Omnipotent.” The article presents this as a “common 19th-century belief” now corrected by “modern astronomy.” This is a classic modernist maneuver: the evolutio dogmatum (evolution of dogmas) condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (proposition 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him”). By framing Secchi’s speculation as a past “belief” superseded by current science, the article insinuates that Catholic teaching on creation is mutable, subject to the verdict of secular astronomy. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) condemns the proposition that “Divine revelation is imperfect, and therefore subject to a continual and indefinite progress, corresponding with the advancement of human reason” (Error 5). Graney’s narrative — “Not long ago… astronomers thought Earth was very ordinary… However, Graney debunks this theory” — mirrors the modernist heresy that the Church’s understanding of the cosmos “progresses” toward a naturalistic consensus, rendering the immutable truth of Genesis and the Fathers obsolete.
The Theological Bankruptcy of “Astrobiology” in the Service of the Antichurch
The entire discourse on “extraterrestrial life” and “Earth-like worlds” is a reductio ad absurdum of the conciliar sect’s anthropocentric humanism. The article quotes Graney: “From a modern astronomy perspective, Earth is not an ordinary place. Doesn’t mean that there’s no other planets like Earth elsewhere in the universe, but the universe is certainly not full of worlds like Earth.” This obsession with planetary rarity or plurality serves one purpose: to dethrone Earth as the unique theater of the Incarnation and Redemption. Quas Primas declares: “Christ the Lord is King of hearts because of His love… for there has been and will be no one who has been so loved by all as Christ Jesus.” The hypostatic union — unio hypostatica — is the center of creation; the Creature (the Blessed Virgin Mary) is the masterpiece of God’s hand. To speculate on “innumerable beings” on other worlds is to deny the unicity and universality of Christ’s Kingship: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Pius XI, citing Leo XIII). The neo-church’s astronomers, by entertaining the plurality of worlds, implicitly deny that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12), reducing the Cosmic King to a local deity of a statistically rare planet.
Naturalism Masquerading as Apologetics
Graney’s dismissal of “Vatican hiding space aliens” as “more boring” is a straw man designed to portray the Observatory as a bastion of sober rationality. In reality, the Specola Vaticana functions as a propaganda tool for the religion of Scientism, the “synthesis of all heresies” (St. Pius X, Pascendi Dominici gregis). The Syllabus condemns: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil; it is law to itself, and suffices, by its natural force, to secure the welfare of men and of nations” (Error 3). Graney’s “modern astronomy perspective” is precisely this: reason divorced from Revelation, measuring the cosmos by light-years and spectral analysis, utterly silent on the finis ultimus (ultimate end) of man. The article’s tone — bureaucratic, detached, “educational” — is the linguistic signature of the civitas terrena (city of man) masquerading as the Civitas Dei (City of God). There is no mention of sin, grace, the Final Judgment, or the Social Kingship of Christ. The “scholar” studies “asteroids, galaxies, and cosmology” but not the Summa Theologiae or the Catechism of the Council of Trent. This is the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors” against which Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King.
The Antipope’s Visit: Legitimizing the Usurpation of Sacred Space
The article casually notes: “Pope Leo XIV visits the Specola Vaticana… on July 20, 2025.” This is the antipope Robert Prevost, the latest usurper in the line beginning with John XXIII, performing a media stunt to legitimize the neo-church’s ownership of the Vatican palaces. The Defense of Sedevacantism establishes that “a Pope-manifest heretic loses his office automatically” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice), and that the post-conciliar “popes” are manifest heretics by their adherence to the false doctrines of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality). Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code states that an office becomes vacant “if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The visit of this antipope to the Observatory is not a pastoral act but a political one: it signals the conciliar sect’s alignment with the globalist, scientistic agenda of the New World Order — the “Masonic operation” described in the Fatima analysis, where “the name ‘Fatima’ [is] a symbol of Christian-Islamic syncretism” and the “miracle of the sun” a “mass optical manipulation.” The Observatory, like the false Fatima, serves to distract the faithful from the apostasia (apostasy) within the walls of the Church, directing their gaze to the stars while the abominatio desolationis (abomination of desolation) sits in the Holy Place (Matt 24:15).
Conclusion: The Universe is Not Full of Worlds Like Earth — It Is Full of Souls Needing Christ
Graney’s book title, A Universe of Earths, unwittingly reveals the neo-church’s cosmology: a plurality of worlds, a dilution of the unique Redemption, a naturalization of the supernatural. The true Catholic perspective, immutable since the Apostles, is that “the Father has appointed Christ heir of all things; and He is to reign until He has put all His enemies under the feet of God the Father at the end of the world” (Heb 1:2; 1 Cor 15:25, cited in Quas Primas). The “Vatican Observatory” of the antichurch is a monument to the superbia (pride) of man who, like the builders of Babel, seeks to “make a name” for himself (Gen 11:4) by scanning the heavens while ignoring the King of Heaven. The faithful must reject this naturalistic spectacle, cling to the Traditio (Tradition) of the Church before 1958, and work for the Instaurare omnia in Christo (to restore all things in Christ) — the only remedy for a universe that groans in expectation of the revelation of the sons of God (Rom 8:19-22).
Source:
Vatican Observatory Scholar Says Earth May Be Rarer Than Once Believed (ncregister.com)
Date: 03.10.2026