The late Dr. D. James Kennedy wrote a tract about the absolute astronomical uniqueness of planet Earth as the only place in the universe with a myriad of circumstances essential for sustaining life, and if but one of those was missing, life would be impossible.
I read this as a Catholic, and Dr. Kennedy’s theorem confirms beyond any doubt the existence of God and His divine Purpose in ordering the physical world.
Good to read Monsignor Pope affirming the same truth.
There are of course a lot of factors that are unique to earth, and the chance of one let alone all of them occurring simultaneously is certainly remote. A large moon, a fractured crust, a magnetic field, etc. We don’t even know for sure what factors are requirements and which are not. But the thing is that there are a lot of stars with planets in the universe. More than the grains of sand on all the earth’s beaches. I’ve no doubt God is powerful enough to create all that just so this one planet could support life, but it just doesn’t make sense to me.