As Director of the Vatican Observatory Brother Guy Consolmagno has had his fair share of stargazing. He's a Jesuit priest who has a keen interest in considering space in God's creation and how it can feed us has humans.




He grew up in Detroit in the 1950s into a Catholic family where faith was not "oppressive" but part of the fabric of daily life. From an early age he was interested in science which he says came from his father and some long dark nights together where: "Space was everything."




When a choice came to pursue a religious life or something more scientific he found it difficult to decide. A love of meteorites caught his imagination and he's been studying them in relationship to God every since.




In this episode of The Profile Br. Consolmagno talks to Tony Wilson, a writer for Premier Christianity Magazine about rationality and faith - and asks if you ever have to choose one and whether there is life on other planets.




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Released on 14 Feb 2025