Pope: Scientists also can arrive at sanctity. "There is a friendship between science and faith, and men of science can follow, through their vocation of the study of nature, a fascinating journey of …More
Pope: Scientists also can arrive at sanctity.
"There is a friendship between science and faith, and men of science can follow, through their vocation of the study of nature, a fascinating journey of holiness." The Pope said so this morning during the general audience in St. Peter's Square, presenting the figure of Saint Albert the Great to the 30 thousand pilgrims present. A great theologian and philosopher born in Germany in the early thirteenth century, Albert entered the Dominican order and was Bishop of Regensburg for four years. He was a teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas, and with him contributed to the development of Aristotle's thought in the Church, "convinced that everything that is rational is compatible with Scripture."
St. Albert teaches us, the Pope concluded, that a man of faith can study the natural sciences and explore the laws of matter, transforming the studies into a hymn of praise to God, the wise and loving Creator. And that philosophy and theology, while different, "cooperate harmoniously to the discovery of the true vocation of man, who thirsts for truth and happiness".
"There is a friendship between science and faith, and men of science can follow, through their vocation of the study of nature, a fascinating journey of holiness." The Pope said so this morning during the general audience in St. Peter's Square, presenting the figure of Saint Albert the Great to the 30 thousand pilgrims present. A great theologian and philosopher born in Germany in the early thirteenth century, Albert entered the Dominican order and was Bishop of Regensburg for four years. He was a teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas, and with him contributed to the development of Aristotle's thought in the Church, "convinced that everything that is rational is compatible with Scripture."
St. Albert teaches us, the Pope concluded, that a man of faith can study the natural sciences and explore the laws of matter, transforming the studies into a hymn of praise to God, the wise and loving Creator. And that philosophy and theology, while different, "cooperate harmoniously to the discovery of the true vocation of man, who thirsts for truth and happiness".