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Is Space Exploration Moral? A Catholic Perspective – Questions with Father #57

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Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Christianity

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🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Today on Questions with Father, we look upward—quite literally. What does the Catholic Church say about space travel? Is exploring the cosmos a noble pursuit, or does it risk becoming a modern Tower of Babel? We reflect on Pope Pius XII’s encouragement of scientific exploration, the real medical and scientific benefits gained from space missions, and the moral principles that help us judge the risks involved. We also examine the modern push toward space tourism, lunar colonization, and even reshaping human identity through technology. Where does legitimate discovery end and hubris begin? This episode offers a Catholic framework for thinking about humanity’s future beyond Earth. We’d love your feedback on this series! podcast@sspx.org

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Today on Questions with Father, we look upward, quite literally.

0:11.0

What does the Catholic Church say about space travel? Is exploring the cosmos a noble pursuit,

0:16.0

or does it risk becoming a modern Tower of Babel? We reflect on Pope I.S. the 12th's encouragement of scientific

0:21.4

exploration, the real medical and scientific benefits gained from space missions, and the moral

0:26.1

principles that help us judge the risks involved. We also examine the modern push towards

0:30.8

space tourism, lunar colonization, and even reshaping human identity through technology.

0:36.8

Where does legitimate discovery end and

0:38.7

hubris begin? This episode offers the Catholic framework for thinking about humanity's future

0:43.6

beyond Earth. These episodes are free to listen to and always will be, but if you can help with a

0:48.0

one-time or a small monthly recurring donation on SSBXpodcast.com, you'll be making sure that we

0:52.9

can continue this work of producing good

0:55.0

Catholic content on a regular basis. So now let's join Father Paul Robinson for questions with

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Father number 57. Is space exploration moral, a Catholic perspective?

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Father Robinson, welcome back, and great to have you back for questions with Father. How are you?

1:12.5

I'm doing well, Andrew. Yeah. Good.

1:15.3

I look forward to talking a little bit about space. We are. And last time we talked, by the way,

1:20.5

just we're timing this a little bit. But last time we talked, we talked about the construction projects in Walton.

1:26.1

That video is now live about in our sacred restoration series.

1:30.1

And a lot of very nice feedback so far about that.

1:33.6

A lot of people interested in helping and certainly praying for the project.

1:38.2

So congratulations on that episode.

1:40.5

We have a few more scheduled with different parishes, chapels. But yeah, it seems like

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