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Guy Consolmagno is an American planetary researcher and a Jesuit priest. He's the curator of one of the world's great collections of meteorites, at the Vatican Observatory. He gets a lot of questions about how he can be both a priest and a scientist. Luckily, he has a sense of humor about it -- witness a recent appearance on the Colbert Report -- and believes science and religion can work together.
Brother Guy Consolmagno — a staff astronomer and the curator of meteorites at the Vatican Observatory — travels about 100,000 miles each year, splitting his time between Tucson, Ariz., and Rome. The planetary scientist also gives 40 to 50 talks annually at universities, schools and parishes around the world.
Asteroids, Stars, and the Love of God.
Four Jesuits in history have had astreroids named after them. Our guests are the two living astronomers with that distinction. They share their observations of life, faith, friendship, and the universe from their seats in the Vatican Observatory.
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For the Church, talking about life on other planets is not an every day occurrence. But that was the theme at a weeklong meeting that gathered scientists and theologians in the Vatican.
The purpose of the meeting centered around astrobiology and the possibility that life exists elsewhere in the universe.
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On Wednesday afternoon, September 16th, Benedict XVI inaugurated the new premises of the Specola Vaticana, the Vatican Observatory.
Date: Tuesday 30 April 2002, 8.00-8.40pm
Place: Geoff Watts meets scientists who work for the Catholic Church. BBC-Radio4
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/vaticanscientists.shtml