Pope Francis on the Cosmos and Maybe Even “Cosmos”

As part of some reflection during this season of Lent, I’ve been reading Pope Francis’ 2013 encyclical “The Light of Faith“. This week, I came upon two interesting nearby passages…

The gaze of science thus benefits from faith: faith encourages the scientist to remain constantly open to reality in all its inexhaustible richness. Faith awakens this critical sense by preventing research from being satisfied with its own formulae and helps it to realize that nature is always greater. By stimulating wonder before the profound mystery of creation, faith broadens the horizons of reason to shed greater light on the world which discloses itself to scientific investigation.

That was from a section titled “The Dialogue Between Faith and Reason”. In the section immediately following, “Faith and the Search for God”, Pope Francis adds…

Religious man strives to see signs of God in the daily experiences of life, in the cycle of the seasons, in the fruitfulness of the earth, and in the movement of the cosmos.

There really is no problem between science and religion, despite what you may be told, unless people want there to be one.

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