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slash Rome. So what I want to talk about is how we can think about the scientific project and the sort

success of science as a way to gain truths about this word that we live in, how we can put

that in conversation in different ways with the Catholic intellectual tradition, with our faith tradition.

And but I want to start with why, since we are so excited about science in our society today,

and maybe, even maybe puts it a bit on a pedestal, like where it doesn't belong sometimes. I mean, there is sort of a good

reason to it. And that is that the scientific method, a scientific project, has been a wonderful

thing for humanity. It has helped us to cure the sick, to feed the hungry, to bring people out of poverty.

These are all the great things.

Now, as we all know, there are also some not so great things that have come out of the scientific project.

But I think, in some sense it shows that as you find out more about this material order that we live within, like how you can use

that for good in many ways. But the main wonder of science that I want to talk about is not

science for the sake of something else, but science as a way to gain truth.

I mean, this is, the success of the scientific method in sort of unveiling what kind of word we'll live in

has been amazing on all different kinds of scales.

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