St. John Paul II once wrote that faith and reason are “two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.” Neither faith nor reason can operate alone. Each requires the other.
How do faith and reason work together?
Rather than working against one another, faith and science together offer a fuller picture of creation
“What do I do if science tells me one thing but religion tells me another thing? Which do I believe?”
There’s a false assumption at the center of that question, because neither science nor religion are about believing in “things.”
Eclipse seen as a way to pray, ‘engage with the work of God’s hands’
Hundreds of thousands of people will share in the solar eclipse April 8. “A way to engage with God’s creation, the work of God’s hands,” said Michelle Francl-Donnay.
Can both science and faith go wrong? Vatican Observatory director says ‘yes’
Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory, is interviewed about his new book “When Science Goes Wrong: Desire and the Search for Truth.”
Pope urges scientists to work for peace, protect the planet
The 80 academicians, who include dozens of Nobel Prize winners, come from the fields of astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, botany, zoology, genetics and physiology and other specialties.
‘Trust the science,’ but do not idolize it, says Vatican astronomer
Brother Consolmagno wrote an article saying that that those who are stubbornly skeptical of science and those who eagerly embrace science as infallible both have a dangerous misunderstanding of the nature of science.
The search for life beyond Earth is as much theological as it is scientific
Scientific discoveries are energizing the queries not just about the possibility of rational, or intelligent, life, but also about God’s role in life elsewhere and if there may be an incarnational experience beyond Earth.
Mysteries, dragons, saints fill summer reading for Catholic youth
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