Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.

I think that anybody who thinks science is going to explain everything in biological systems, or in physical cosmology, et cetera, is actually mistaken, because I think within science - if correctly understood - those claims are not being made.

Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.

Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.

God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated me, through the brothers and sisters I grew up with, the schools I went to, there was this influence upon me which was the faith, in the concrete. I accepted it, I questioned it, I grew up with it, and in the end, as a mature adult, I continue to accept it.

As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.