Modern Physics, the Beginning, and Creation
Some religious people look upon the discovery of the Big Bang as a scientific proof that the universe was created by God.
The Church Opposes Science: The Myth of Catholic Irrationality
Many people believe that faith and reason, or religion and science, are locked in an irreconcilable war of attrition against one another.
AIDS and Medical Ethics: a Great Betrayal
The September 5th edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports on the prospect of "pre-exposure prophylaxis" as a means of preventing HIV transmission.
The Galileo Affair
The Galileo affair is the one stock argument used to show that science and Catholic dogma are antagonistic. While Galileo's eventual condemnation was certainly unjust a close look at the facts puts to rout almost every aspect of the reigning Galileo legend.
The Quarrel the Evolutionists Started
Following Pope John Paul II's 1996 statement that the theory of evolution is more than just a hypothesis, newspapers around the world published articles wrongly asserting that the Church had finally come around and withdrawn its opposition to the theory.
Has Science Run Its Course?
One year after scientists flipped the switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), physicist Lawrence Krauss fretted, "I worry whether we’ve come to the limits of empirical science."
Beyond analysis to rejoicing
A legion of publishers will attest that Father Stanley Jaki (1924-2009) did not suffer fools gladly, and under that category he filed virtually all editors.
Verbiest: The Priest Who Invented the Automobile
The list of great Catholic scientists is as long as the years since modern science became conscious of itself, but my clerical perspective would focus on Catholic priests compelled by beauty to discover more about the ordering of things.
How the Church has changed the World: Seeds of Life
In the days of the father of microbiology, Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), the atheistic view of the world and its organization and history was called "positivism."
How the Church Has Changed the World: The Ordinary Man
Everyone knows the name of Frank Capra from his most celebrated film, "It's a Wonderful Life".