There are more than 30 objects on the moon named after Jesuits.

Jesuits mapped the moon.

A Jesuit was one of the founders of modern astrophysics.

And four Jesuits in history, including Ignatius of Loyola, have had asteroids named after them.

Vatican astronomers, brother Guy Consolmagno, and Father George Coyne are the two living men with this distinction.

This is becoming wise, an inquiry into the mystery and art of living. I'm Krista Tippett. I'd like to hear from both of you about how your take on life,

which is very much informed by your science,

how that resonates with Catholic theology and tradition in particular.

I think it's exciting to be ignorant.

And I think our ignorance in pursuing science has something to do with this whole idea of the uncertainties involved in a relationship of love with God

that I call faith.

I'll give you a story very quickly, which it says better and kind of talking philosophically

about this.

I gave a paper at a scientific meeting on the uncertainties in our determination of the

age of the universe.

There are several methods we use for determining the age of the universe and there are a degree

of uncertainty involved with each of them.

Well, whenever I give a, I'm at a scientific conference or so, I'm not dressed as a priest

because it just, why, you know, it just confuses things.

But I had just given a talk in a church or something.

I didn't, so I gave this talk, and I was wearing my Roman collar.

So a gentleman stood up, you know, discussion period, question period.

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