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Jesuit Astronomer Wins Carl Sagan Award, Shocks NPR

Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno
Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno (photo: Wikipedia)
Joan Frawley Desmond Blogs

Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, a U.S.-born astronomer, has won the Carl Sagan Award, a prestigious prize “for outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the general public.” 

The news led National Public Radio to bring its persistent questions about the so-called conflict between the Catholic Church and science to the Jesuit brother. His adept and pithy responses can be found here.  

Is it possible that Brother Guy will  effectively quash outrage over the Vatican's persecution of the astronomer Galileo Galilei back in the 1600s? Don't bet on it.

Joan Frawley Desmond

Joan Frawley Desmond Joan Frawley Desmond is a Register senior editor. She is an award-winning journalist widely published in Catholic, ecumenical and secular media. A graduate of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies of Marriage and Family, she lives with her family in California.

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