“Not everything that is technically possible or feasible is therefore ethically acceptable.”

Julie Payette, Canada’s new governor general, stirred up controversy with a speech to a scientific gathering in which she seemed to pit “divine intervention” against “natural process.”

"You Russians have in your blood, in your humanistic and religious tradition" an understanding of love, Francis said to Russian cosmonauts.

Francis is known for his out-of-the-blue calls. But this one has been in the Earth-to-space pipeline for a while.

“What is blessing? Who can bless? Can God bless through a robot?”