In a column for Rhode Island Catholic, Bishop Thomas Tobin took a humorous ride through the implications of an interview in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, with Fr Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit Director of the Vatican Observatory.
He writes, "What if extraterrestrials landed in Rhode Island? It seems to me that if aliens are thinking about traveling to Rhode Island, they'd better think again. Given the current animosity toward immigrants in Rhode Island, I'm not sure they'd be at all welcome here, even though they'd be a great tourist attraction and generate boatloads of money for the economy. And given the fact that they'd probably have a different skin color and speak a foreign language, they'd have no chance at all. Before you could say "Mork and Mindy" they’d be blamed for all the social problems that beset us here in Little Rhody.
