(Vatican Radio) This year’s Carl Sagan Medal, presenter by the American Astronomical Society (AAS), has been awarded to Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, of the Vatican Observatory.
The Division for Planetary Sciences of the AAS, upon announcing the award, said Consolmagno “occupies a unique position within our profession as a credible spokesperson for scientific honesty within the context of religious belief.”
The AAS made a special note of his book “Turn Left at Orion,” which “has had an enormous impact on the amateur astronomy community, engendering public support for astronomy.”
“As a Jesuit Brother, Guy has become the voice of the juxtaposition of planetary science and astronomy with Christian belief, a rational spokesperson who can convey exceptionally well how religion and science can co-exist for believers,” the AAS wrote.
This award will be presented to Brother Consolmagno at the 46th annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences in Tucson, Arizona, in November. The Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope, operated by the Vatican Observatory, is located nearby, in southeastern Arizona’s Pinaleno Mountains near Mount Graham.
(From archive of Vatican Radio)
2 comments
((( ! detect a disturbance in the atheist force)))
Do YA detect what I detect?
I detect that the atheist are all going to start a little propaganda saying that http://www.radiovaticana.va/ should be sold and all money given to the poor.
Come on Jeff! Be honest! Was “I” close to what YA were thinking now? LOL 🙂
The telescope can stay. The organization behind it has to go, every bit of it, and every last cent given to the poor. Nothing else is acceptable. Everybody knows Catholics are not allowed to discover anything anymore, nor are they have even been allowed to even look at the night sky for the last 500 years.
Am I right? Don’t all answer at once! (crickets chirping)