News and Announcements

Several Gold Masses are being celebrated this November.  Becaue of COVID, they are being held with social distancing and several are being livestreamed or zoomed.  Some have opted to celebrate them in the Spring semester.

November 14, Saturday, at 1:30 PM US Eastern time: Free zoom lecture and webinar on “Extraterrestrial Life: The Science and the Theology.”   

Might Extraterrestrial life exist? Where? How would we search for it? (Do we already have evidence of it?)  Could such life have human-level intelligence? If Extraterrestrial intelligent life (or “ETI” life) exists, what would be its theological implications?

On Oct 20, Prof. Christopher Baglow speaks on "Christ, the True Origin of Humanity." The Steno Lectures series is jointly sponsored by SCS, the Science & Religion Initiative of Univ. of Notre Dame and the Lumen Christi Institute.

Lecture on "Fearful Symmetry:  Cosmic Order and a Divine Creator" will be given by Stephen M. Barr, SCS President.  It is organized by the Harvard Catholic Forum and the lumen Christi Institute and co-sponsored by SCS.

The conference will be held in Washington DC at the Washington Hilton (1919 Connecticut Ave. NW)   Main conference theme: “Extraterrestrials, AI, and Minds Beyond the Human."  

The grant of $234,000 over three years is for expanding the public outreach of SCS and the scope of its activities.

University of Mary has an opening for Assistant Professor or Associate Professor of Physics.  All application materials should be received by October 15, 2020. 

Aleteia has an article this month about Juan Maldacena, who is the most highly cited theoretical physicist in the world. His discoveries have revolutionized understanding of gravity and quantum field theory. Maldacena is a member of the Society of Catholic Scientistss and the 2018 recipient of its St. Albert Award. 

SCS Board member Maureen L. Condic has a book out on human twinning. SCS Scholar Associate Kenneth W. Kemp has a book on the supposed "war" between Science and Religion. SCS Scholar Associate Gerard Verschuuren has a book on how science points to God. SCS member Chih-Pei Chang is editor of a forthcoming volume on extreme weather and climate.

Coming soon:  answers to "Common Questions" about the Catholic faith and science given on the SCS website, "College Chapters" of SCS,  an SCS Speakers Program, Zoom Lectures on faith and science., and new website Articles.  Click on picture for more details.

Free Webinar sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and co-sponsored by the Society of Catholic Scientists with renowned evolutionary biologist 

New SCS Board Member, Christopher Baglow will speak on Tuesday, Jan 28 at the Notre Dame Gold Mass on "The Catholic Faith and Modern Science: Understanding and Correcting Models of Conflict"

Several Gold Masses are coming up in January!!

An important new book has just been released

There are five faculty position openings that should be of interes.t to many members of SCS

This list will be updated as information becomes available.

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.