Brother Macke said "every day is different ... which keeps the work fresh and exciting."

I wanted to know what it was really like to travel to the moon, but I realized that the only people who knew would not be around much longer.

“Throughout the history of the Society, the Jesuits have been key players in astronomy,” said Robert Macke, S.J., a specialist in meteorites who works at the Vatican Observatory in Rome. Jesuit contributions to astronomy are significant enough that 34 craters on the moon and several asteroids are named after them.

The 50th anniversary of the moon landing provides not just a moment for nostalgia but an occasion to revisit the values that should inform our public judgment.

I have learned that belief is not unique to those who consider themselves religious.

If the frontier of the U.S.-Mexico border represents the America that would exclude me, space is the frontier that invites me.