News and Announcements

We're pleased to announce an exciting, limited-time membership benefit. The University of St. Thomas Catholic Studies Graduate Program is offering a $1000 scholarship on their online Fall 2019 Science and Catholicism course to the first five members who apply by Monday, August 26.

This year's valedictorian at the University of Notre Dame is Sofia Carozza, neuroscience major and student member of the Society of Catholic Scientists. Watch her VALEDICTORY ADDRESS on the true meaning of Catholic education. And read this ARTICLE about her and her selection as valedictorian from among two-thousand graduating seniors.

We are looking forward to an exciting conference. The theme is "What does imean to be human?" and there will be talks by experts on everything from Neanderthals to genetic engineering,  Here are the full Program and Schedule.  We have an exciting lineup of speakers. Here are brief Biographies of all the speakers. And here one can find general information about the conference.  The registration deadline is May 15.

The Lumen Christi Institute is holding a pair of weeklong summer seminars on science and the Catholic faith, one for graduate students and one for undergraduates.  These are co-sponsored by the Socety of Catholic Scientists. See below for details. 

In the first week of April, 2019, the Society of Catholic Scientists reached 1000 members!  To celebrate, we are giving a gift to every tenth new member until SCS reaches 1,200 members. (That is, to the 1,000th, 1010th, 1020th, ... , 1,200th members.) The gift will be either a hardcover copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, or the three volume paperback set of "The Faith of the Early Fathers" by William A. Jurgens. 

In addition to the third annual SCS Conference, there are several upcoming events (symposia, conferences, public lectures) on science-faith topics at which SCS members will be among the speakers.  They will be in Chicago, IL, Tempe AZ, St. Paul MN, Philadelphia PA, and Washington DC.   See below for details.  

The conference is taking shape.  We have exciting speakers lined up! For information about the conference theme, venue, invited speakers, lodging, submitting abstracts for talks and poster presentations, etc. including updated information about Registration and Dorm Fees, and Abstract Submission, click HERE.

The 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society is being held in Phoenix Arizona on Jan 6-10.  In conjunction with this a Gold Mass for scientists and science educators will be celebrated on January 8. See below for details.  

The Society of Catholic Scientists hails the vote of the membership of the International Astronomical Union to recommend renaming the famous Hubble Law of cosmology as the Hubble-Lemaître Law to honor Fr. Georges Lemaître (1894-1966), the Catholic priest and theoretical physicist who proposed the Big Bang theory in the late 1920’s. 

Sixteen Gold Masses are scheduled for this November (or later in the academic year) in three countries. Mark your calendars! Gold Masses are celebrated for Catholic scientists, science educators at all levels, and science students (undergraduate and graduate).  It is a good way to meet other Catholics in your area who are involved with science.  See below for information about the Gold Masses that have been scheduled.

On October 31st, Jonathan Lunine of Cornell University, who is Vice President of SCS, will give a lecture at the University of Chicago about Georges Lemaître, the astrophysicist and priest who proposed the Big Bang Theory.  The lecture is open to the public and is co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and by the University of Chicago's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.  It will be held at 7 PM in Kent Hall, Room 107, 1020 East 58th Street, Chicago IL 60637. 

The third annual conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists will be held on June 7-9, 2019 at the University of Notre Dame. The main theme of the conference will be “What Does it Mean to be Human?”  

The second SCS conference, held at Catholic University of America on June 8-10, 2018, was a great success.  SCS continues to grow strongly. There is a new "Video Archive."

August 29, 2018, is the one-hundredth birthday of  Clemens C.J. Roothaan, a member of the Society of Catholic Scientists, who is famous for his  work in atomic and molecular physics, including the Hartree-Fock-Roothaan equations.  A concentration camp survivor, he went on to a long and distinguished career as a professor of chemistry and physics. His great-great-great uncle was Superior General of the Jesuit order from 1829-1853.  

The SCS conference is fast approaching! The deadline for registering is May 24.  Here is information on how to register and how to get to the conference.

We've prepared a poster for our second annual conference: THE HUMAN MIND AND PHYSICALISM. Please distribute it far and wide!

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Immediately preceding the 2018 SCS Annual Conference, there will be a Symposium co-sponsored by The Thomistic Institute and the Society of Catholic Scientists. Graduate students or advanced undergraduates in the natural sciences or philosophy are encouraged to apply to attend the Symposium. The deadline is April 1.

An article about the event and the text of Archbishop's homily about St. Albert and the relation of faith and science.

Members of the Society of Catholic Scientists are invited to submit abstracts of contributed talks or posters. Deadline for abstracts is April 1.

His lecture on Fr. Georges Lemaitre (founder of the Big Bang theory) and the relation of science and faith is attended by over 250.