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Sience and faith in a historical perspective

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23 Clips from an interview with Prof. Peter Harrison, former Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, and director of the Centre of the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland. Harrison gives a nuanced answers to questions on the differences and the interplay between science and faith from a historical perspective. He answers questions about the presumed conflict between science and faith, about Copernicus, Galileo and Darwin.

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The Pill, The Environment

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A Catholic View on Sustainable Development

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rio-20-cursos-gratuitos-2012Vatican newspaper “L’Osservatore Romano” has published the Holy See’s position paper ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, “Rio+20”. 

The position paper which the Holy See will present at “Rio+20”, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, published in the Vatican daily broadsheet L’Osservatore Romano, came out almost unnoticed yesterday afternoon. “Rio+20” will be held next week in the Brazilian capital, exactly 20 years after the first event in 1992.

Read the report of the ‘Vatican Insider’

Full text of the position paper