We are mysteries to one another. The same is true of nature. The same has ever been true of God.
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Astronauts give Pope Francis a custom space suit
The blue flight suit bears the pope’s name, a pair of angel wings, and a short white cape.
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How Teilhard de Chardin’s hidden response to Vatican censure finally came to light
Teilhard’s Six Propositions were locked away until 2007 when they were discovered in the Jesuit archives in Rome.
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Who was the Jesuit priest mentioned during the Royal Wedding sermon?
Bishop Curry described Teilhard as “one of the great minds, great spirits of the 20th century.”
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Inquiry or Inquisition? Another look at Father Teilhard de Chardin
The Jesuit’s approach was groundbreaking because “it was not a simple reconciliation of science and faith; it was integrating, creating a single, wholistic vision because the past danger was having a radical separation” of the two.
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The (Catholic) Science Guy
Whoever says you have to choose between science and faith has not met Guy Consolmagno, S.J.—a Jesuit brother and director of the Vatican Observatory. We ask what projects the pope’s astronomers are working on now, if he believes in aliens and why people in every time and place look to the stars with big questions. […]
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The (Catholic) Science Guy
This week, we talk with Guy Consolmagno, S.J.—a Jesuit brother and director of the Vatican Observatory.
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What Stephen Hawking and my mother taught me about suffering
My approach to the mystery of A.L.S. is a bit different than that of the famed physicist.
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Catholic physicist: Remember Stephen Hawking as a scientist, not a sage
There have been great physicists and mathematicians who were also great philosophers. Hawking, unfortunately, was not one of them.
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Catholic leaders praise Stephen Hawking for his contribution to science and dialogue
Hawking’s avowed atheism did not keep him from engaging in dialogue and debate with the church as his work and contribution to the papal academy showed.