The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

My answer to someone who is in contrast with me - by not seeing God in the scientific data - is that you don't see God in the scientific data because you're not me. I have other experiences than you have, that bring me to look at this data as enriching my experience of God.

Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.

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.

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