There are many reasons to doubt whether Darwin can answer the hard questions and explain the big picture. 

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."

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.

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.

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."

Everyone knows the name of Frank Capra from his most celebrated film, "It's a Wonderful Life".

Lemaître had no trouble at all seeing how faith — divine creation out of nothing — and the Big Bang, which seems to look just like that, were compatible.

In recent years, some medical practitioners have suggested that death from dehydration may not be such an unpleasant way for patients to die.

The boy, delicate in frame, approached his father in his study. 

How did we get here?