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Are young scientists changing their minds about God?

December 13, 2023

Contrary to the prevalent notion that science stands at odds with religion, younger scientists are more open to the concept of a higher spiritual reality, according to a new book. In “Science at the Doorstep To God: Science and Reason in Support of God, the Soul, and Life After Death,” Father Robert Spitzer, president and

Galileo is not the atheists’ posterboy

February 01, 2023

Bad-tempered pontiffs, lynching committees, theology and science

People need to know the Church is not anti-science

January 30, 2023

Edmund Adamus speaks to children’s author Elizabeth Peck about how to address the misconception that science and religion are in conflict

Do colours exist?

September 23, 2022

A Catholic vision of reality can help us see more than the raw laws of science might suggest

The Church and Galileo

June 28, 2022

The reasons for the Church’s conflict with Galileo are more complex than we think

Shining a light on faith

March 30, 2022

Navigating the relationship between science and faith can be something of a minefield. Fr Georges Lemaître (whom I wrote about last month) was not too pleased when Pope Pius XII suggested that his cosmological theory had succeeded in bearing witness to the august instant of the primordial Fiat Lux (“let there be light”) at the

Tuning in to science and faith

March 01, 2022

Catholics past and present have contributed much to scientific developments

The nuns who have doctors baffled

December 08, 2016

Doctors are unable to explain why a nun's brain fully invaded with Alzheimer's kept functioning at a high level