Science and Faith

Stephen Hawking: Great Science with Worst Atheism!

“If the universe is really completely self contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end; it would simply be. ‘What place, then, for a creator?’,” asks late Stephen Hawking, ‘the genius on the wheelchair.’ In his bestseller, A Brief History of Time, Hawking envisages a model of the universe which […]

Atheism – Doctrine of the Half-enlightened?

The recent research by researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Babson College in the US have examined the relationship between belief in God or a universal spirit with measures of analytic thinking and moral concern in eight different experiments, each involving 159 to 527 adults. Consistently through all eight, the more religious the person, […]

The Pope’s Astronomer

Kuruvilla Pandikattu Brother Guy Consolmagno, a Jesuit religious brother with an MIT degree, has worked as “the pope’s astronomer” as director of the Vatican Observatory who has a profound love for studying space, reading and watching science-fiction as well as Jesus and the Gospels. Embraced by both the scientific and the religious communities, Consolmagno is […]

Gold Mass for Catholic Scientists

There is a tradition of celebrating special Masses for the members of a professional group. Accordingly, lawyers have Red Mass since the 13th Century and the White Mass for Healthcare professionals. Similarly, in the United States a group of American Catholics have recently formed the Society of Catholic Scientists. Their first event was an evening […]

Infinite Universe meets Infinite Mercy

Kuruvila Pandikat SJ The sudden news of the death of Stephen Hawking, the world- renowned cosmology on March 14, 2018 has shocked both scientists and believers all over the world. “He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. His courage and persistence with his […]

When Mercy Trumps Justice

Kuruvila Pandikat SJ Paul Sudhir Arul Kalanithi (April 1, 1977 – March 9, 2015) was an Indian-American neurosurgeon and writer. His book “When Breath Becomes Air” (2016) is a memoir about his life and illness battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list for multiple weeks. […]

Scientific Study of God’s Love and Benevolence

Neuroscience had found that there is a correlation between belief in God and one’s altruistic behaviour. Now this point is further established by a scientific study of the benevolent behaviour of the people. Flame of Love Project is a recently concluded survey aimed at studying the relationship between spiritual experiences and benevolent behaviour in America. […]

Dialogue between science and religion

Kuruvilla Pandikat SJ If you want to figure out how the Universe works, you have to ask. Not by asking some authority figure, but by finding a way to ask the Universe itself: to theorize an idea and to test it, via thorough experiments, observations, and measurements. The ability to formulate an idea, to infer […]

Eviction-facing Indian Catholics to fight Muslim charity’s claims

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