Pope Affirms Science-Driven Quest to Find God in Creation
Pope Leo XIV told the Vatican Observatory Foundation that the Church welcomes rigorous science and seeks God in creation, recalling Leo XIII’s 1891 revival of the Observatory to show faith and science are not opposed but united in truth; he warned against denying objective truth, emphasized humanity’s duty to care for the planet and its vulnerable, and highlighted the Foundation’s role in education through astronomy as a way to encounter God through His Creation.