Pontifical Academy of Sciences Archives

Chinese state media highlights Vatican official at organ trafficking conference in Beijing
- Global Church
- August 4, 2017
The Chinese state-owned Global Times, an English-language newspaper, has quoted Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo’s positive remarks about China. Sánchez Sorondo is in Beijing, and state media in the communist country usually does not draw attention to the presence of Vatican officials when they are in the country.
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New head of Pontifical Academy of Science a natural Francis choice
- Vatican
- June 23, 2017
With his choice of Joachim von Braun as the new President of the Pontifical Academy of Science, Pope Francis has indicated he wants the institution to take a more active role in trying to find solutions to planetwide problems like ending poverty and saving the environment.
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Pope Francis warns of a ‘great world war over water’
- Catholic News Service, Vatican
- February 24, 2017
Talking at a Vatican sponsored meeting which called for the universal right to safe and accessible drinking water, Pope Francis also cited “troubling” statistics from the United Nations which indicate that each day, a thousand children die from water-related illnesses.
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Could Catholicism handle the discovery of extraterrestrial life?

NASA confirmed the discovery of seven new exoplanets not too far from Earth, bringing humanity one step closer to finding other livable planets and, possibly, extraterrestrial life. Does Catholicism have the means to survive such a discovery? The pope, experts and theologians say yes.

No nation is free of organ trafficking, say speakers at Vatican summit

In an effort to find viable solutions for the trafficking of organs, which has become a global problem, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences has invited government ministers, judges, law enforcement personnel, medical professionals, human rights activists and journalists from 50 countries to the Vatican.