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The latest book from the director of the Vatican Observatory combines personal reflection with a detailed history of Jesuit engagement with astronomy. Pope at Audience: The humble and poor bear witness to Jesus’ birthA Jesuit’s Guide to the Stars.As Consolmagno notes in the book's introduction, this is a story which has its origin in the very earliest days of the Society of Jesus.
The story then continues with figures such as Angelo Secchi, the 19th century Italian Jesuit and astronomer – who Consolmagno says “might be the greatest scientist most people have never heard of” - and Gerard Manley Hopkins, a well-known Jesuit poet and “talented amateur astronomer”.is also a very personal book, filled with Consolmagno’s own reflections and even a chapter on how he discovered his vocation to the Jesuit order.
The book also contains nuanced reflections on the relationship between faith and science. For instance, Consolmagno warns against 'concordism', or the attempt to find connections between scientific discoveries and the teachings of the Bible. “Both religion and science must preserve their autonomy and their distinctiveness," Consolmagno notes, quoting Pope John Paul II."Religion is not founded on science nor is science an extension of religion.”
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