Pope Leo XIV marked today’s anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon‑landing with a papal tour of the Vatican Observatory’s domes in Castel Gandolfo.
Video showed the Holy Father peering through the historic Schmidt telescope while New Orleans‑born Jesuit astronomer Fr. David Brown, S.J.—a former physics teacher at Jesuit High School of New Orleans—explained the latest stellar‑evolution research. The encounter cast a bright spotlight on the Jesuit intellectual tradition that spans Banks Street in Mid‑City all the way to the Vatican’s hilltop laboratories…
