George V. Coyne, S.J. is a Jesuit priest, astronomer, and former director of the Vatican Observatory and head of the observatory’s research group which is based at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. He has been active in promoting the dialogue between science and religion and pioneered the series of conferences on "Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action" which the Vatican Observatory organized in collaboration with The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, California. He has also been active in the continuing debate about the religious implications of scientific evolution. He currently serves as President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation and travels extensively as an invited speaker to educational, religious, academic and cultural groups.
Father Robert Barron is an acclaimed author, speaker, and theologian. He is America‘s first podcasting priest and one of the world‘s great and most innovative teachers of Catholicism. His global, non-profit media ministry called Word on Fire (www.WordOnFire.org) reaches millions of people by utilizing advanced and emerging technologies to draw people into or back to the Faith. He lectures extensively in the United States and abroad, including the Pontifical North American College at the Vatican and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Cardinal George calls Father Barron “one of the Church’s best messengers.”
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