Many people believe that faith and reason, or religion and science, are locked in an irreconcilable war of attrition against one another.
By the time he was thirty, Nicolas Steno had made a whole lifetime of discovery in several fields of science.
"Little War-god," said the servant, resting after the long march, "why are you scrubbing my boots?"
The unique combination of metaphysical speculation and the wisdom of Christian revelation made possible the blessings of science and technology we enjoy today.
"What are you doing, Medicine Man?"
Fra Angelico (c. 1395-1455) did not dwell in a desert.
The list of great Catholic scientists is as long as the years since modern science became conscious of itself, but my clerical perspective would focus on Catholic priests compelled by beauty to discover more about the ordering of things.
In the days of the father of microbiology, Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), the atheistic view of the world and its organization and history was called "positivism."
Everyone knows the name of Frank Capra from his most celebrated film, "It's a Wonderful Life".
The boy, delicate in frame, approached his father in his study.