- Article
- 10,000 words
- Level: high school and above
A seven-part series of articles on the Church and Science, published by Aleteia in the winter of 2024-2025, covering Galileo, evolution, and the problem of the two Great Lights.
The central argument in the Aleteia series is that, from its early days, the Church has been attentive to Science and willing to accommodate scientific discoveries (even when those discoveries contradict a plain reading of Scripture) while also trying to ensure that the science is solid before accommodation is made. The process for doing this has been imperfect but needed.
Series on Church and Science (all articles).
- Catholic Church and Science: St. Augustine and great lights
- The Church and evolution, and just one book it condemned
- Why would the Vatican meddle in science? To correct it?
- Did (and does) the Church oppose the science of evolution?
- A new look at the Galileo case, from the Vatican Observatory
- The real reason the Church opposed Galileo
- Church and science: What’s to be made of the history? The future?
Click here to download the PDF version of the Series on Church and Science.
