Is the Catholic Church actively preparing for the contact with a highly advanced sentient alien species?

> According to constitutional and public interest lawyer and educator Daniel Sheehan, the Catholic Church is actively preparing for the discovery of and contact with a highly advanced sentient alien species. He spoke today at Contact in the Desert 2015, a landmark UFO conference in Joshua Tree in Southern California, where he described what will be a historic papal encyclical decree calling for nothing less than the disassembly of the power structures that are destroying our civilization and preventing us from joining an enlightened galactic partnership. Pope Francis and Catholic Church Are Preparing For Alien Contact - The Ghost Diaries Is the Catholic Church really actively preparing for the discovery of and contact with a highly advanced sentient alien species? What is the evidence that suggests this?