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: ...
In August, Pope Leo XIV appointed Goa-born Jesuit priest Fr Richard D’Souza to head the Vatican Observatory, one of the world’s oldest astronomical observatories with a storied history making him one ...
When the late Pope Francis was elected, a dozen years ago, and famously declined the pomp and perquisites typically associated with the office, among his renunciations was the use of the papal summer ...
The Jesuits and mathematics in Chinca, 1582-1644 -- Western learning under the new dynasty (1644-1666) -- The emperor and his astronomer (1668-1688) -- A mathematical scholar in Jiangnam: the first ...