The three women join a prestigious group of around 80 scientists in all who are members of the Academy, 20 others of whom are also Nobel laureates.
Science
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
The crux of religious belief: Walter Miller Jr.’s ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
Parsing the pros and cons of ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz,’ the latest selection of the Catholic Book Club.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
UFOs are back in the news—and Catholics are ready to deal with any theological questions on alien life.
The Catholic intellectual tradition stands ready to help humanity interpret and process the fact that we are not alone in the universe.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
What Moses and NASA’s Mars Rover taught me about wonder and awe.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover touched ground on the red planet on Feb. 18 and today NASA announced some of its first discoveries.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Trailblazing Black Catholic geneticist wants more Black women to pursue careers in science
“Science has made my faith stronger,” she said. “The DNA structure is amazing. It is beautiful and is evidence of what God can do and has done.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: We are all responsible for the future of our planet
Eric Holthaus experiences climate change as a wound, a rending in the fabric of society and ecology.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Why all Catholics should get a Covid-19 vaccine
We go behind the story with a bioethicist on the moral imperative of current Covid-19 vaccines.
Posted inExplainer, Faith
Why does the Catholic Church object to IVF? It’s more complicated than you think.
Scientific advances have allowed enormous breakthroughs in overcoming infertility—but not without some vexing ethical questions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
We created our present-day crises. It’s uncomfortable but not unfixable.
Jason Blakely show that the very tools we human beings use to try to understand the world in fact end up constructing it, for better or for worse.
Posted inExplainer, Faith
Explainer: Is it ethical for Catholics to get a vaccine derived from abortions?
Catholic moral theology can offer some answers.