Columnist David Mills explores the confluence of science and religion: “The people at the intellectual heights of our culture believe that religious faith is personal and irrational and has absolutely no place in public life. The public truths, the beliefs on which
(OSV News) — Are science and religion fundamentally opposed to each other? That common notion has “worked a lot of mischief,” said Bishop Robert Barron, who launched a new conference Jan. 13-14 to show how the Catholic Church champions “the unity of
Biological engineering, such as gene therapy for treating human disease, is making such swift advancements that the public's knowledge and understanding of what is happening and what ethical and legal guidelines are needed are lagging too far behind, said speakers at a
In an analysis for Our Sunday Visitor, Mary FioRito unveils an often-ignored group within the pro-life movement: atheists against abortion. She writes: “For the first time since Gallup began polling on the topic of religion, those who say they belong to a
In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Father Robert J. Spitzer, president of the Magis Center and an expert in the field of faith and science, explores the new images pulled from the James Webb Space Telescope and what it means
Pope Francis has appointed Stanley B. Prusiner, an American neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine, and Zeresenay Alemseged, an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist who discovered the fossilized remains of the "world's oldest child," to be members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Contributing editor Russell Shaw looks at the recent launching of the James Webb Telescope, which last month slipped successfully into orbit around the sun, nearly 900,000 miles from earth: “If all goes well (and its creators and managers keep reminding us that
A Gold Mass celebrating the "unity between science and religion" will bring scientists and science students together in prayer and fellowship Nov. 3 at the University of Mary.
Bismarck Bishop David D. Kagan will preside at the 10 a.m. liturgy at Our Lady
With the expected release this month of the U.S. Department of Defense's report on unidentified aerial phenomenon, or UAPs, the question of intelligent life beyond Earth's solar system is back in the limelight.
The long-sought answer to "Are we alone in the universe?"
A group of Catholic evolutionary biologists, astrochemists, astrophysicists, theologians and astronomers will gather in Washington, D.C., this weekend to discuss a topical scientific issue in high-level government circles: Extraterrestrials, advanced alien civilizations and UFOs. The conference is “quite timely” said Stephen M.