Pope Leo XIV announced at the end of July the appointment of Fr. Richard Anthony D’Souza, S.J., as Director of the Vatican Observatory. Fr. D’Souza took office on 19 September. Born in 1978 in India, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1996 and was ordained a priest in 2011. He holds degrees in Physics and Astronomy from St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai and the University of Heidelberg, worked on his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Munich, then did postdoctoral studies at the University of Michigan. He joined the staff of the Observatory in 2016…
Meet the new Director of the Vatican Observatory – La Civiltà Cattolica
