A good theologian joke

A barzelletta from Giulio Meotti's essay that appeared in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, noted at Papa Ratzinger Blog.  There's a joke going around the Vatican.  The progressive Swiss theologian Hans Kung reaches Paradise and discusses his theories with St...

Benedict gives audience to Academy of Sciences

The Sovereign Pontiff received participants in the now-concluded plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Sala Clementina of the Apostolic Palace.  Excerpts from his allocution: If we think, for example, of how modern science, by predicting natural...