Today, Google's main image was this:
Clicking on it leads one to various profiles of Bishop Nicolas Steno, a geologist, biologist and paleontologist.And Catholic bishop.
He is even on his way to sainthood, having been beatified by JPII in 1988.
He found the excretory duct of the parotid glands and discovered patterns of blood circulation in the human body.
He studies a great deal of the anatomy of the human brain, fossils, and all sorts of scientific stuff.
The Catholic Church does not stand against reason or science...and praise God for that.
George Weigel, in talking about other converts (Steno was a convert from Lutheranism) has this to say: "If there is a thread running through these diverse personalities, it may be this: that men and women of intellect, culture and accomplishment have found in Catholicism what Blessed John Paul II called the “symphony of truth.” That rich and complex symphony, and the harmonies it offers, is an attractive, compelling and persuasive alternative to the fragmentation of modern and post-modern intellectual and cultural life, where little fits together and much is cacophony."
His words (click here to read them all) seem quite appropriate for Bl. Steno.
Bl. Steno, pray for us!
mk
