The Rev. George C. Coyne, a Jesuit astrophysicist who as the longtime director of the Vatican Observatory defended Galileo and Darwin against doctrinaire Roman Catholics and challenged atheists, too, ...

The Rev. George C. Coyne, a Jesuit astrophysicist who as the longtime director of the Vatican Observatory defended Galileo and Darwin against doctrinaire Roman Catholics and challenged atheists, too, ...

Pope Leo XIV greets Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory, during an audience with students in the summer school of the observatory, at the Vatican June 16, 2025. Credit: ...