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Jesuit Father George V. Coyne, pictured in a Jan. 4, 2010, photo, was director of the Vatican Observatory for 28 years until his retirement in 2006. He died at age 87 in Syracuse, N.Y., Feb. 11, 2020. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
FaithDispatches
Guy Consolmagno
I could list all his scientific work, his writings on faith and science, his honors and degrees. But none of those are George.
FaithFaith in Focus
Vincent Strand
A Jesuit finds God in the familiar on the Wisconsin Way
Politics & SocietyNews
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, the Vatican Observatory's current director, recalled the first words from Father Coyne when he joined the observatory staff in 1993: "Do good science."
Wapichan school children in Guyana. Photos courtesy of Leah Casimero
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Ian Peoples
Indigenous primary school students grow up speaking one of several different indigenous languages of the interior of Guyana but when they begin school they encounter a system based on an English-language framework, referencing a culture and experiences they do not share.
Arts & CultureBooks
Kaya Oakes
A prolific Catholic writer is himself now the subject of a biography from Liturgical Press.
Secondary school students get to work in September at the Matteo Ricci school in Brussels. Photo courtesy of Matteo Ricci.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Melissa Vida
Jesuits in Belgium wanted to launch a new school that would reach less-affluent communities, but they were also keenly interested in connecting with “people from different cultural and religious backgrounds.”