Reclaiming Our Common Humanity
The William H. Shannon Chair in Catholic Studies presents:
Guy Consolmagno, S.J.
Why Do We Look to the Heavens?
March 1, 2018, 7:00PM
Forum, Otto Shults Community Center
What Does "Catholic" Science Look Like?
March 2, 2018, 1:30PM
Linehan Chapel, Golisano Academic Center
"... my religion's understanding of the universe is consistent with everything that I observe about life: not only in science, but in my experience of beauty, love, and all the other transcendentals . . . including those experiences that I interpret as prayer, my direct experience of God."
Astronomer, writer, and lecturer, Brother Guy Consolmagno, S.J., is director of the Vatican Observatory and president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. After earning undergraduate and master's degrees at MIT and a Ph.D. in planetary science at the University of Arizona, Consolmagno did post-doctoral research at Harvard University and MIT, served with the U.S. Peace Corps in Kenya, and taught physics at Lafayette College. He has worked at the Vatican Observatory since 1993 exploring the connections between meteorites, asteroids, and the evolution of small solar system bodies. His work has taken him to every continent. In 1996, he spent six weeks collecting meteorites with a NASA team on the blue ice regions of East Antarctica.
Consolmagno is the author of more than 200 publications in his field as well as books such as Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist and Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? (co-authored with fellow Jesuit Paul Mueller), which engage readers at the intersections of science and religion. He has hosted science programs for BBC, Radio 4, appeared on the The Colbert Report, and written monthly science columns for the British Catholic magazine The Tablet. In 2014, Brother Consolmagno received the Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences for excellence in public communication in planetary sciences.
"How wonderful would it be if the growth of scientific and technological innovation would come along with more equality and social inclusion. How wonderful would it be, while we discover faraway planets, to rediscover the needs of the brothers and sisters orbiting around us. How wonderful would it be if solidarity . . . became, instead, the default attitude in political, economic, and scientific choices, as well as in the relationships among individuals, peoples, and countries." ~ Pope Francis
Please join us in welcoming to the Shannon Chair podium our distinguished speakers: Bishop Robert W. McElroy, Lisa Fullam, Guy Consolmagno, S.J. and Maureen O’Connell.
Christine Bochen
William H. Shannon Chair in Catholic Studies
Email: cbochen4@naz.edu
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