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Mitchell, Maria (1818-1889)
Christian Maria Mitchell was the first American woman to be a professional astronomer and a professor of astronomy (Vassar College). Click here for Vatican Observatory Faith and Science entries about...
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Hidden Figures
Book 368 pages Level: high school and above Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race is a...
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NASA’s “Hidden Figures”
Christian Dorothy Vaughn, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden were mathematicians, engineers, and computer programmers working at NASA Langley during the “Space Race”. They were also...
View ArticleDiscovered at the VATT
Flyer 4 pages Level: high school and above A January 2020 flyer produced by the Vatican Observatory Foundation that highlights the science done with the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope or VATT....
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Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
Book 250 pages Level: all audiences Reaching for the Moon was written by Katherine Johnson and published in 2019 (by Simon & Schuster: Athenium Books for Young Readers), when she was one over...
View ArticleQuestions and Answers with Fr. William Stoeger of the Vatican Observatory
Videos (5) Each video approximately 3 minutes Level: all audiences Fr. William Stoeger, S. J. (1943-2014) was a staff scientist for the Vatican Observatory Research Group in Tucson, specializing in...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Exploration: Planetary Astronomy
Article 3000 words Level: all audiences Br. Guy Consolmagno, S.J. of the Vatican Observatory writes that while we might not expect many ethical questions to arise in astronomy, since it is a science...
View ArticleThe Peaceful Uses of Solar System Resources: Opportunities and Issues
Article 3800 words Level: all audiences This is the English text of an article by Br. Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory, that was published in La Civiltà Cattolica in 2019 which in...
View ArticleAstronomy, Religion, and the Art of Storytelling
Video 48 minutes Level: All audiences This March 2020 video presentation by Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, Director of the Vatican Observatory, was made for The Catholic Theological Union’s Science For...
View ArticleThe Qibla Debate: Tradition, Authority, and Education
Article 2900 words Level: high school and above In what direction is Mecca, toward which Muslims are enjoined to face during daily prayers, and toward which all mosques should be oriented? What...
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Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History
Book 256 pages Level: university In this 2010 book published by Yale University Press, Ahmad Dallal addresses the epistemological question of the relative authority of religious knowledge and...
View ArticleHobby Astronomer Priest Keeps His Eyes on the Heavens
Audio 40 minutes Level: all audiences A 2020 interview with James Kurzynski, a priest of the Diocese of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, who is an amateur astronomer, a writer for the Vatican Observatory Sacred...
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Georges Lemaître and the foundations of Big Bang cosmology
Article 19 pages Level: high school and above This article by astronomer Simon Mitton of St Edmund’s College of Cambridge University provides an overview of the life and work of Fr. Georges Lemaître...
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Faith and the Expanding Universe of Georges Lemaître
Georges Lemaître (right) Article 5000 words Level: high school and above This 2019 article is unique in that it is an article about a Catholic scientist, written by a Catholic scientist and published...
View ArticleIt’s a Fair Question: God and Science
Video 30 minutes Level: all audiences This 2020 video from the Church of Scotland features Rev Dr Martin Fair interviewing Br Guy Consolmagno about joy in science, the day-to-day business of the...
View ArticleModern Scientific Thought in Santa Fe, Quito, and Caracas, 1736–1803
Article 30 pages Level: university This paper by Luis Carlos Arboleda and Diana Soto Arango was included in a collection of articles published by the University of Texas Press in 2006 under the title...
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What is it Like Being Catholic and a Scientist?
Article 900 words Level: all audiences This August 2020 article by Ray Cavanaugh, published in Aleteia, features two Catholic scientists, Kate Bulinski of Bellarmine University and Stephen Barr of the...
View ArticleEs el Físico Teórico más citado del Mundo… y Hombre de Fe
Article 1000 words Level: all audiences This 2020 article published by Aleteia features physicist Juan Martín Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton...
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Maldacena, Juan Martín (1968-)
Catholic Christian Juan Martín Maldacena is an American physicist, born in Argentina, known for his work in fundamental physics, especially as regards quantum mechanics, string theory, and black holes....
View ArticleCommon Questions: Society of Catholic Scientists
Article 50 pages (approx.) Level: high school and above A list of sixteen common questions related to religion and science, ranging from “Doesn’t the Book of Genesis contradict the Big Bang and...
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