How we understand faith and science has changed radically from the time of Galileo, as can be seen in how Pope Francis blended science and faith in his encyclical Laudato Si’. Its key insight is that our science, and the technology it spawns, is deeply connected to the flawed but redeemable human persons who do the science, and who make and live with technology… and its consequences.
Biography:
Br Guy Consolmagno, SJ, is the Director of the Vatican Observatory. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he earned undergraduate and masters’ degrees from MIT, and a PhD in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard and MIT, served in the US Peace Corps (Kenya), and taught university physics at Lafayette College before entering the Jesuits in 1989. He joined the Vatican Observatory in 1993 and, in 2015, Pope Francis appointed Br Guy the director.
