by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Faith and Science, Religion
Author: Fr. Donald P. Merrifield, SJ Article Abstract: Although a member of the administration at Loyola Marymount University, Fr. Merrifield has not lost interest in faith/science. Biology, anthropology and evolutionary psychology have always attracted him more than...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Faith and Science, Philosophy and Theology, Science and Technology
Author: Alfred Kracher, PhD Article Abstract: Professor Kracher of Iowa State University, in Part Two of this report, on a recent European Conference on Science and Theology, offers his reflections on the role of Catholic thought in the science/religion dialog in...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Faith and Science, Philosophy and Theology, Science and Technology
Author: Alfred Kracher, PhD Article Abstract: The increasingly common practice of prenatal and preimplantation genetic diagnosis risks fostering in society a eugenic type of mentality. While a distinction must be made between compulsory, state organized, eugenics and...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Faith and Science
Author: Fr. Donald J. Keefe, SJ Article Abstract: In this essay it is argued that it is only sacramental realism, and specifically the realism proper to the Eucharistic sacrifice, that permits the optimism characterizing the experimental sciences, and underlying their...
by ITEST | Mar 30, 2019 | Faith and Science
Author: The Most Reverend Pierre DuMaine Article Abstract: The article originally appeared as a Christmas message in the diocesan newspaper, The Valley Catholic, from the then Bishop of San Jose to the people of his diocese. Using the “Star of Bethlehem” representing...
