Br. Guy Consolomagno, SJ, Director of the Vatican Observatory, will speak on “God’s Mechanics: The Religious Life of Techies.”  A native of Detroit, Br. Guy earned undergraduate and masters’ degrees from MIT, and a Ph.D. in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard and MIT before entering the Society of Jesus in 1989. His research at the Vatican Observatory has explored connections between meteorites, asteroids, and the evolution of small solar system bodies. Along with more than 200 scientific publications, he is the author of a number of popular books including Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? (co-authored with Father Paul Mueller, S.J.). The talk will examine the personal religious life and theology of scientists and engineers in California’s Silicon Valley and offer a first-person confession from a Jesuit scientist and astronomer at the Vatican Observatory.

Talk will take place in the Bartlett Pastoral Center; limited seating.