Maybe today—tonight—we should all take another look at “Earthset.” We need to feel anew a sense of identification with humankind and the planet as a whole.
Space
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Artemis astronaut: Moon mission inspires wonder, prayer and unity
Asked by CBS News’ Mark Strassmann if he had an Easter message, Victor Glover — a Christian who has spoken publicly about his faith, citing Psalm 30 during his previous mission to the International Space Station — reflected on “the beauty of creation.”
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‘Project Hail Mary’: a feel-good space story with a deep sense of morality
“Project Hail Mary” certainly qualifies as an uplifting experience at the cinema, being a mix of selflessness, sacrifice, camaraderie and even a certain amount of melancholy.
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Why the moon turns our thoughts to God
It has been 56 years since humankind went to the moon—but it’s still on our minds.
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Pope Leo XIV marks 56th anniversary of moon landing with observatory visit and a call to Buzz Aldrin
Pope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of man’s arrival on the moon Sunday with a visit to the Vatican astronomical observatory in Castel Gandolfo and a call to astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
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Catholic Book Club: The interstellar Jesuit spirituality of Mary Doria Russell’s ‘The Sparrow’
With ‘The Sparrow,’ Mary Doria Russell imagines an alien world in intimate and fascinating detail—and then sends along some humans with deep questions about faith, God and the universe.
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Why so many Jesuit characters in sci-fi? Because the genre deals with God and the problem of evil.
When we think of science fiction, lasers and aliens might come to mind first—but it is also a genre in which religious imagination plays a role.
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Satellite carrying Pope Francis’ message of hope launched into space
Once deployed into orbit, the microsatellite was set to transmit papal messages of hope and peace in English, Italian and Spanish that any amateur radio receiver should be able to pick up.
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From 1969: America’s editors on the religious significance of the moon landing
After Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the Moon in July 1969, America’s editors called the effort to reach the Moon “so much a symbol and product of human unity as to argue its distinctively religious character in itself.”
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Jesuits…in space! Looking back on Catholic coverage of the cosmos
Finding our place in the cosmos—whether that be via moon landings or our human origins in stardust—has been the subject of more than a few America articles.