Catholic bishops have praised the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientists and technicians for the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the lunar surface a month after its launch. “The progress made by our scientists and engineers in the field of space research is truly commendable and fills our hearts with pride,” said the Catholic Bishops’ Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Space’
Space, Shape, Sharing and now Social Distancing
Monday, August 24th, 2020
Philosophers often point out that space is one of the basic prerequisites of human experience. We exist as spatial creatures – we have size and location and movement. We imagine ourselves ‘in space,’ we arrange things in space in relation to other items located around us. We constantly locate (i.e. put in a place in Read more
The curious case of the crop circles in Ngatea
Thursday, June 25th, 2020Fairly credible evidence suggests that an alien spacecraft landed in a field in the Hauraki Plains. At 7.30 pm on September 4, 1969, two Straits Air Freight Express pilots reported an unidentified flying object in the form of a fluorescent blue pulsating light beside the pilot’s side window. Read more
Location, location, location? How coronavirus is reshaping our sense of place
Thursday, March 26th, 2020
There are few times stranger to start cohabiting with one’s partner than the week before a citywide lockdown. Less than two weeks after I moved the majority of my things across New York City, I found myself occupying a new, though by now not unfamiliar, apartment. Thanks to the restrictions of the lockdown, the geography Read more
Evangelii Gaudium: Time is greater than space
Friday, May 2nd, 2014222. A constant tension exists between fullness and limitation. Fullness evokes the desire for complete possession, while limitation is a wall set before us. Broadly speaking, “time” has to do with fullness as an expression of the horizon which constantly opens before us, while each individual moment has to do with limitation as an expression Read more
Just one world: An astronaut on Vatican II
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013
Being one of the first human beings to orbit the planet most certainly brings a unique perspective to all aspects of human life, including faith and ethics. Many of the first astronauts and cosmonauts who returned to our little blue dot in the universe brought back messages of peace and human unity. Coming from members Read more
Pope Benedict calls space station
Friday, April 29th, 2011
Vatican Radio reports that discussions are under way to try to arrange for Pope Benedict to speak to two Italian astronauts onboard the space station. The planned link-up would happen on May 4 and will coincide with the final mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which is scheduled to leave from the Kennedy Space Center Read more