Brother Guy Consolmagno- The Pope's Astronomer
As Director of the Vatican Observatory Brother Guy Consolmagno has had his fair share of stargazing. He's a Jesuit priest who has a keen interest in considering space in God's creation and how it can feed us has humans. He grew up in Detroit in the 1950s into a Catholic family where faith was not "oppressive" but part of the fabric of daily life. From an early age he was interested in science which he says came from his father and some long dark nights together where: "Space was everything." When a choice came to pursue a religious life or something more scientific he found it difficult to…
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