2017-2018 Speakers Series Upcoming Events
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CONNECT ENCOUNTER GROW A community for those whose character and faith have been touched by Jesuit ministries. 2017-2018 Speakers Series “God’s Mechanics: e Religious Life of Techies” Br. Guy Consolmagno, S.J. About the speaker: Saturday, February 10, 2018 • 6:00PM Brother Guy Consolmagno, S.J., is a (following 5:00PM Mass) Jesuit brother, Director of the Vatican Observatory, President of the Vatican St. Ignatius Church Observatory Foundation, and is an 650 Parker Avenue astronomer and meteoriticist. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he earned undergraduate San Francisco, CA 94118 and master’s degrees from MIT, and a doctorate in Planetary Science from the Dinner & speaker in Fromm Hall University of Arizona, was a postdoctoral directly behind the church research fellow at Harvard and MIT, served in the US Peace Corps (Kenya), and taught university physics at Lafayette College To register, purchase dinner tickets and for more info: before entering the Jesuits in 1989. https://tinyurl.com/GodsMechanics Along with more than 200 scientific OR [email protected], 415-564-2600 publications, he is the author of a number of popular books including Turn Left at Orion (with Dan Davis), and Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? (with Paul Mueller). He also has hosted science programs for BBC Upcoming Events: Radio 4, been interviewed in numerous documentary films, and writes a monthly Guided Meditation with science column for the British Catholic Father Greg Bonglio, S.J. magazine, The Tablet. Sunday, January 28, 2018 | 6:00 pm Sunday, February 11, 2018 | 10:30 am Read this article about Br. Consolmagno: www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/world/europe /vatican-observatory-consolmagno.html Manuscript courtesy of: Francis X. Talbot, SJ, autographs collection, GTM900914, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington, D.C..