Brother Guy Consolmagno Archives

Eclipse thrills, inspires viewers to admire the precision of creation
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- August 22, 2017
A Catholic parish hosted an eclipse-watching party, as parishioners and visitors wonder at God’s creation. Some travelers made their way to a field the parish owns across the street from the church. Spots were going for $10. Some stayed overnight, camping in tents or in the back of their vehicle. Others, arrived in the pre-dawn hours eager to catch the spectacle.
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Vatican official visits Kentucky school ahead of solar eclipse
- Associated Press, Vatican
- August 20, 2017
Most people in small towns in the United States never expect to meet an official from the Vatican. Due to its prime position for viewing the eclipse, a small town in Kentucky is receiving a visit from the man who runs the Vatican Observatory.
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Vatican stargazers look for divine inspiration
- Religion News Service, Vatican
- May 28, 2017
Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican observatory, says, “It (science) always makes my faith stronger because it makes my relationship with the Creator much richer. When I go to pray, the God I encounter in prayer I compare with the God I encounter in creation. And see it is the same God.”
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Top Vatican scientist calls on scientists who believe to ‘come out’

May 8, 2017

The Vatican Observatory is hosting a major May 9-12 conference on “Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Space-Time Singularities,” underlining the point that science and religion can actually get along. The director of the observatory says it might help if more scientists who are believers “came out,” sharing their faith.

Catholic scientists converge in Chicago to ask big questions

Could there be other planets that harbor life? Is it possible that there might be multiple universes? What is the origin of the cosmos? Catholic and non-Catholic scientists from all over the world are meeting in Chicago for a conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists to focus on the answers to these big questions.