My latest at InsideCatholic, “Reflections on a Year of Science“:

“In this year of science we would do well to think about the sun setting over the Alban Hills, glinting off the Vatican’s observatory domes at Castel Gandolfo as they quietly look over the more important domestic activities of the plains below. Such an image is science as it should be — a noble enterprise in human leisure, not the nihilistic and bloodthirsty god that it has threatened to become.”