“Doesn’t science, like evolution and the Big Bang, conflict with Genesis and Adam and Eve?” This question was posed to me at a Science…
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Kentuckians “invaded” the Vatican’s astronomical observatory this winter. The Vatican Observatory has two sites: near Rome, and in Arizona (where the skies are darker…
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Some people love math. Recently I had the opportunity to visit the home of one such person — the 18th-century astronomer Benjamin Banneker. His…
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Robert Frosts’ poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” tells of him pausing to watch snow fall, far from any house, at a…
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There is going to be a Gold Mass — for those in science — in the Archdiocese of Louisville. You may be familiar with…
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Did you see the tears of St. Lawrence last week? The “Tears of St. Lawrence” is an old name for the Perseid meteor shower….
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Randomness is a popular concept. People invoke it as an explanation for the world: Stuff just happens. No explanation or cause needed. The world…
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Here is a tale about clocks, Jupiter, Genesis and how science can raise big questions without even trying. Early clocks were like “grandfather” clocks…
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Can you name a faith-filled scientist who combined faith and science to write poetry and hymns of praise? There’s Johannes Kepler. He made breakthroughs…
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John Adams, the second president of the United States, surely was no fan of Advent. Writing to Thomas Jefferson in January of 1825, he…
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