The Catholic intellectual tradition stands ready to help humanity interpret and process the fact that we are not alone in the universe.
Science
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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Review: The intersection of ecology and theology
Thomas Berry’s legacy for a rising generation of eco-theologians and ethicists is pervasive.
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What the story of Galileo gets wrong about the church and science
The Galileo story is presented as a narrative of the church denying science. But that implies that science is a single, monolithic worldview.
Part history, part science fiction, the Galileo story is less a legend than a myth.