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 ...

Indian Catholic priest Richard D’Souza has been appointed as the new director of the Vatican Observatory. The newly elected Pope Leo XIV confirmed his appointment on Thursday evening. D’Souza, 47, a ...

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 ...

Indian Jesuit Father Richard D’Souza, the new director of the Vatican Observatory, says he will continue the tradition of Vatican astronomers who demonstrated how science and faith can co-exist. The ...

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 ...

Introduction : science and the Jesuit ways of proceeding -- Jesuit struggles in Peru -- Confessing the power to heal -- Christianizing demonic knowledge -- Science and expansion -- Astronomy between ...