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A total solar eclipse through a lens of faith

April 7, 2024 Catholic News Agency 5

A total solar eclipse. / Credit: Public domain via Pixabay

National Catholic Register, Apr 7, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
When the moon passes between the sun and Earth creating a total solar eclipse on April 8, many Catholics in its path will be lo… […]

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Pope Francis to young astronomers: Keep love and wonder alive

June 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Galaxy M74. / NASA/ESA/Hubble Collaboration.

Vatican City, Jun 20, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis sent a letter to young astronomy scholars Tuesday encouraging them to maintain their “sense of wonder” and surprise throughout their research… […]

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Vatican astronomer: Webb telescope space images are ‘food for the human spirit’

July 14, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

NASA’s Webb captures a dying star’s Final ‘Performance’ in fine detail: A planetary nebula, shaped like an irregular oval, with lacy, reddish orange plumes of gas and dust. / NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Vatican City, Jul 14… […]

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July 13, 2022 CWR Staff 6

The New Authoritarians – What changed in March 2020? How have things played out? What are the causes? What can we expect, looking ahead? Evil In Our Time: Naomi Wolf on the Covid Response (Brownstone […]

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Vatican Observatory announces discovery of ‘trans-Neptunian object’

February 10, 2022 Catholic News Agency 7

The Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope in Graham County, Arizona. / Jjstott via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Denver Newsroom, Feb 10, 2022 / 17:29 pm (CNA).
The Vatican Observatory recently announced the discovery of an object orbiting the sun a… […]

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Revisiting and understanding the “Galileo Affair”

November 16, 2017 CWR Staff 14

“The Galileo Affair needed to be looked at again,” says Dom Paschal Scotti, “because it is one the great events, climactic events even, in European […]

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