The Jesuit's approach was groundbreaking because "it was not a simple reconciliation of science and faith; it was integrating, creating a single, wholistic vision because the past danger was having a radical separation" of the two.

This week, we talk with Guy Consolmagno, S.J.—a Jesuit brother and director of the Vatican Observatory.

My approach to the mystery of A.L.S. is a bit different than that of the famed physicist.

There have been great physicists and mathematicians who were also great philosophers. Hawking, unfortunately, was not one of them.

Hawking's avowed atheism did not keep him from engaging in dialogue and debate with the church as his work and contribution to the papal academy showed.