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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, October 13th, 2021. Now this week we are looking at why

Catholicism is good. Last week, we proved that it is true. This week, we are starting our look at why it is good. Why it not only

makes us the best versions of ourselves, but it transforms our world into a better place.

Yesterday we started looking at why Catholicism throughout the century has been the source of

scientific discovery. Now I know I explained to you why, but today I'm going to prove

to you that in fact this happened, because it might be a common misunderstanding in our world

that religion, specifically Christianity, is in conflict with science. And as we look at all these

great scientific discoverers along the centuries,

we might not realize that so many of them were Catholic and so, so many of them were actually

Catholic priests. So let's just look at some all-stars that you probably heard of.

First of all, Blaise Pascal, he was a French scientist, mathematician, and inventor from the 1600s.

We credit all sorts of mathematical discoveries to him, but what you might not know about him is that he was also a Catholic

theologian, that he dedicated huge parts of his life to not only worshiping and knowing God,

but to writing beautiful theology. So Blaise Pascal, I'm sure you'll hear about him in math. He not only loved math,

he loved the Catholic faith. The next one, Louis Pasteur. Now, he is a very important man.

Once again, French, he was a chemist, and we call him the father of vaccines. He discovered that we can create certain types of medicines

that protect us from getting diseases. And vaccines have been used throughout the century

after he discovered them to protect people from things like polio or even today the coronavirus. It is something that

he discovered. And guess what? He not only loved chemistry. He was a devout and faithful Catholic.

Now both of those men were lay people, meaning they were not religious, but I have a huge list of very important scientists that were religious, many of them priests.

First of all, Roger Bacon. He was a Franciscan friar, and he developed the scientific method. Do you remember this? Have you learned

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