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In this episode of The Patriarchy Podcast, Pastor Joseph Spurgeon is joined by Joseph Wiseman—a publisher and faithful Christian—to tackle one of the most heated and misunderstood questions of our day: Who is a Jew?
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SILVER POINT — A Silver Point sign language interpreter has a unique perspective on one of the largest religions in the world as someone who has stood on the sidelines for several years at the annual national convention of the Islamic Society of North America. Via Charles Tiayon
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High-tech tools aid ministers — and ministries — in translating sermons and Bible lessons. Bobby Ross Jr. Editor-in-Chief Missionary Leslie Taylor preaches in English and Japanese each Sunday at the bilingual Matsudo Church of Christ in the Tokyo area. A military brat who spent time as a child in Japan as well as Florida and Tennessee, the father of three prepares his lesson in English. SHUTTERSTOCK PHOTO ChatGPT has helped improve missionary Leslie Taylor’s sermon preparation process. Then he goes through his manuscript — sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph — to translate it into Japanese. “That translation aspect can obviously be very difficult at times,” said Taylor, who earned a master’s degree in ministry from Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tenn. ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot made by the company OpenAI, has helped improve the missionary’s process. “I do as much as I can by myself, but sometimes it helps with particularly complicated sentence structures,” Taylor said of the AI program, “or I may ask it to explain a nuance, etc. “It’s still necessary to know Japanese because sometimes it gives mistaken translations — or just slightly off my meaning — so I need to discern,” he added. “But it is a helpful tool in the process to be sure. I would never even consider it as a source for any actual content, however.” Roughly 6,500 miles away, Dion Frasier, senior minister for the Reynoldsburg Church of Christ in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, relies on ChatGPT to translate his sermon into Creole. “We have a growing Haitian population in our area, and they are starting to attend church regularly,” Frasier explained. “We translate and hand out copies to families each week.” PHOTO PROVIDED BY LESLIE TAYLOR Above, missionary Leslie Taylor takes a selfie with his wife and children in Japan. The number of languages with full Bible translations tops 700 — accounting for the native tongues of 80 percent of the world’s population, the American Bible Society notes. About 3,750 vernaculars lack full translations, but AI could help speed the process of taking the Bible from its original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek into more languages, according to ReligionLink.com. A team at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute “is using natural language processing, which enables machines to understand and respond to text or voice data, to help increase the efficiency of Bible translation and allow for more languages to be reached at a faster rate,” reports Ken Chitwood, ReligionLink.com’s editor. Christians in the U.S. express complicated feelings about AI, with 30 percent believing it is exciting but 34 percent seeing it as scary, according to a recent survey by the Barna Group in partnership with Gloo. (A Catholic advocacy group in California recently dismissed a robot priest who advised its followers to “baptize children in Gatorade.”) Mary Nelson, a missionary with her husband, David, in Tauranga, New Zealand, identifies with both the enthusiasm and wariness toward AI. Related: Volunteers needed to read the Bible “Myself, it makes me nervous — the whole AI arena,” Nelson said. “Automatically, our mind goes to all the different problems that can come about from AI and still may. But if there’s a tool that means we can get Bible lessons out quicker … I can’t think of why we should just say no. “I think we put all the precautions in place and use the tool but use it intelligently,” she stressed. “If we use our own human intelligence to use this artificial intelligence, then I think it’s really good.” ‘Maybe we should be using AI’ A decade ago, Nelson developed an online ministry called Mission Bible Class. Now sponsored by the Memorial Road Church of Christ in Oklahoma City, the ministry provides free resources to teach children around the world. Nelson’s collection of more than 170 Bible stories — all in English — draws about 8,000 pageviews a day. For years, she has dreamed of making the materials available to the world’s roughly 500 million Spanish speakers. Related: Teaching the Gospel, via Zoom To pursue that goal, she and a team worked with translator Tae Perkins — a former missionary to Chile who lives in Lubbock, Texas — to develop a plan estimated to cost $100,000 and take two years. But then ministry supporters asked if they’d considered enlisting AI. They had — and rejected it. Still, they tried it again, unaware how quickly — and how much — the technology had advanced. “We were basically just testing it out,” said Gina Nored, who works with Nelson in New Zealand through Memorial Road’s Helpers in Missions program. “The logic kind of was: Let’s give some reason to why we’re not using AI. And then we realized: Maybe we should be using AI.” They discovered ChatGPT could translate the English lessons into Spanish in an easily editable format. “It takes me about two to three hours to translate one of her lessons,” Perkins said of the previous manual process — which was followed by an additional hour for editing.
By comparison, AI requires less than 15 minutes to translate the same lesson before it goes to the human editor. Then, Perkins said, “It takes me about 30 to 45 minutes to edit one that’s been passed through the AI.” Suddenly, the expected overall project cost dropped 75 percent to about $25,000. The anticipated timeline split in half to one year. “By using AI, it allows us to be more efficient in projects that we feel passionate about,” said Nored, who earned degrees in ministry and elementary education at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn. “But then it allows us to have more time and energy and resources spent on other things that we would otherwise have to put on the back burner or just not be able to do.” SCREENSHOT BY BOBBY ROSS JR. In a Zoom interview, Tae Perkins, top, and Mary Nelson and Gina Nored, bottom, discuss the use of artificial intelligence by the online ministry Mission Bible Class. Veteran minister James Nored, Gina’s father, speaks just one language: English. “I took Greek and Hebrew and all that, but I’m not all that fluent in another language,” said Nored, who holds degrees from Oklahoma Christian University, Harding School of Theology and Fuller Theological Seminary. But through the magic of AI, his voice can be adapted to numerous languages — from Arabic to Portuguese. Nored serves as executive director of Next Generation for Christ, a Virginia-based ministry focused on evangelism, discipleship and missions. He wrote and produced the Story of Redemption Film Series, filmed in Israel and other countries. It’s available in more than 60 languages. “Most of our languages for our Story of Redemption series have been done by humans and professional translators, who are often assisted by AI tools,” Nored said. “And we have found some really great, talented people to do voiceovers.” But AI advancements allow the ministry to “quickly produce” computer-generated voiceovers for videos and subtitles, he said. That’s especially helpful, he noted, when faced with scarce funding, voice talent or time. He cited a ministry to the blind in Albania as an example. “We had the video series with subtitles, but that obviously would not be very helpful for this people group,” Nored said. “We were able to quickly produce an AI-generated Albanian voiceover, and it worked well.” PHOTO PROVIDED BY JAMES NORED James Nored shoots a video in Israel for the Story of Redemption Film Series. Back in Japan, Taylor stresses that his sermon represents more than words on a piece of paper. When he stands before his multicultural congregation, which includes American, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Lithuanian members, he’s not just conveying information. He’s sharing the Gospel. “It’s sharing the heart of the text, obviously,” he said. “But I mean, if I really think about it, it’s very humbling because you’re really representing God to people. … And so I think it’s a sacred task that needs to be taken seriously.” AI, he believes, can help with that task. But it can’t replace the value — and necessity — of humans interacting intelligently with the Holy Bible. BOBBY ROSS JR. is Editor-in-Chief of The Christian Chronicle. Ross writes the Weekend Plug-in column for ReligionUnplugged.com, where this piece originally appeared. He uses an AI program called Otter to transcribe his interviews. Reach him at bobby@christianchronicle.org. Via Charles Tiayon
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High-tech tools aid ministers — and ministries — in translating sermons and Bible lessons. Missionary Leslie Taylor preaches in English and Japanese each Sunday at the bilingual Matsudo Church of Christ in the Tokyo area. A military brat who spent time as a child in Japan as well as Florida and Tennessee, the father of three prepares his lesson in English. SHUTTERSTOCK PHOTO ChatGPT has helped improve missionary Leslie Taylor’s sermon preparation process. Then he goes through his manuscript — sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph — to translate it into Japanese. “That translation aspect can obviously be very difficult at times,” said Taylor, who earned a master’s degree in ministry from Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tenn. ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot made by the company OpenAI, has helped improve the missionary’s process. “I do as much as I can by myself, but sometimes it helps with particularly complicated sentence structures,” Taylor said of the AI program, “or I may ask it to explain a nuance, etc. “It’s still necessary to know Japanese because sometimes it gives mistaken translations — or just slightly off my meaning — so I need to discern,” he added. “But it is a helpful tool in the process to be sure. I would never even consider it as a source for any actual content, however.” Roughly 6,500 miles away, Dion Frasier, senior minister for the Reynoldsburg Church of Christ in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, relies on ChatGPT to translate his sermon into Creole. “We have a growing Haitian population in our area, and they are starting to attend church regularly,” Frasier explained. “We translate and hand out copies to families each week.” PHOTO PROVIDED BY LESLIE TAYLOR Above, missionary Leslie Taylor takes a selfie with his wife and children in Japan. Translating the Bible at a faster rateThe number of languages with full Bible translations tops 700 — accounting for the native tongues of 80 percent of the world’s population, the American Bible Society notes. About 3,750 vernaculars lack full translations, but AI could help speed the process of taking the Bible from its original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek into more languages, according to ReligionLink.com. A team at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute “is using natural language processing, which enables machines to understand and respond to text or voice data, to help increase the efficiency of Bible translation and allow for more languages to be reached at a faster rate,” reports Ken Chitwood, ReligionLink.com’s editor. Christians in the U.S. express complicated feelings about AI, with 30 percent believing it is exciting but 34 percent seeing it as scary, according to a recent survey by the Barna Group in partnership with Gloo. (A Catholic advocacy group in California recently dismissed a robot priest who advised its followers to “baptize children in Gatorade.”) Mary Nelson, a missionary with her husband, David, in Tauranga, New Zealand, identifies with both the enthusiasm and wariness toward AI. Related: Volunteers needed to read the Bible “Myself, it makes me nervous — the whole AI arena,” Nelson said. “Automatically, our mind goes to all the different problems that can come about from AI and still may. But if there’s a tool that means we can get Bible lessons out quicker … I can’t think of why we should just say no. “I think we put all the precautions in place and use the tool but use it intelligently,” she stressed. “If we use our own human intelligence to use this artificial intelligence, then I think it’s really good.”
‘Maybe we should be using AI’A decade ago, Nelson developed an online ministry called Mission Bible Class. Now sponsored by the Memorial Road Church of Christ in Oklahoma City, the ministry provides free resources to teach children around the world. Nelson’s collection of more than 170 Bible stories — all in English — draws about 8,000 pageviews a day. For years, she has dreamed of making the materials available to the world’s roughly 500 million Spanish speakers. Related: Teaching the Gospel, via Zoom To pursue that goal, she and a team worked with translator Tae Perkins — a former missionary to Chile who lives in Lubbock, Texas — to develop a plan estimated to cost $100,000 and take two years. But then ministry supporters asked if they’d considered enlisting AI. They had — and rejected it. Still, they tried it again, unaware how quickly — and how much — the technology had advanced. “We were basically just testing it out,” said Gina Nored, who works with Nelson in New Zealand through Memorial Road’s Helpers in Missions program. “The logic kind of was: Let’s give some reason to why we’re not using AI. And then we realized: Maybe we should be using AI.” They discovered ChatGPT could translate the English lessons into Spanish in an easily editable format. “It takes me about two to three hours to translate one of her lessons,” Perkins said of the previous manual process — which was followed by an additional hour for editing.
By comparison, AI requires less than 15 minutes to translate the same lesson before it goes to the human editor. Then, Perkins said, “It takes me about 30 to 45 minutes to edit one that’s been passed through the AI.” Suddenly, the expected overall project cost dropped 75 percent to about $25,000. The anticipated timeline split in half to one year. “By using AI, it allows us to be more efficient in projects that we feel passionate about,” said Nored, who earned degrees in ministry and elementary education at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn. “But then it allows us to have more time and energy and resources spent on other things that we would otherwise have to put on the back burner or just not be able to do.” SCREENSHOT BY BOBBY ROSS JR. In a Zoom interview, Tae Perkins, top, and Mary Nelson and Gina Nored, bottom, discuss the use of artificial intelligence by the online ministry Mission Bible Class. Better technology, lower costsVeteran minister James Nored, Gina’s father, speaks just one language: English. “I took Greek and Hebrew and all that, but I’m not all that fluent in another language,” said Nored, who holds degrees from Oklahoma Christian University, Harding School of Theology and Fuller Theological Seminary. But through the magic of AI, his voice can be adapted to numerous languages — from Arabic to Portuguese. Nored serves as executive director of Next Generation for Christ, a Virginia-based ministry focused on evangelism, discipleship and missions. He wrote and produced the Story of Redemption Film Series, filmed in Israel and other countries. It’s available in more than 60 languages. “Most of our languages for our Story of Redemption series have been done by humans and professional translators, who are often assisted by AI tools,” Nored said. “And we have found some really great, talented people to do voiceovers.” But AI advancements allow the ministry to “quickly produce” computer-generated voiceovers for videos and subtitles, he said. That’s especially helpful, he noted, when faced with scarce funding, voice talent or time. He cited a ministry to the blind in Albania as an example. “We had the video series with subtitles, but that obviously would not be very helpful for this people group,” Nored said. “We were able to quickly produce an AI-generated Albanian voiceover, and it worked well.” PHOTO PROVIDED BY JAMES NORED James Nored shoots a video in Israel for the Story of Redemption Film Series. A sacred taskBack in Japan, Taylor stresses that his sermon represents more than words on a piece of paper. When he stands before his multicultural congregation, which includes American, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Lithuanian members, he’s not just conveying information. He’s sharing the Gospel. “It’s sharing the heart of the text, obviously,” he said. “But I mean, if I really think about it, it’s very humbling because you’re really representing God to people. … And so I think it’s a sacred task that needs to be taken seriously.” AI, he believes, can help with that task. But it can’t replace the value — and necessity — of humans interacting intelligently with the Holy Bible. BOBBY ROSS JR. is Editor-in-Chief of The Christian Chronicle. Ross writes the Weekend Plug-in column for ReligionUnplugged.com, where this piece originally appeared. He uses an AI program called Otter to transcribe his interviews. Reach him at bobby@christianchronicle.org.
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Analysis - In this year's COP 27 two-weeklong summit in Egypt, which concludes November 18, a rough count indicates there will be 40 different sessions organised by, for, and about, religious engagements in/on climate change and related issues. This is likely the highest number of events by and around religious actors, organised at a COP event. By Azza Karam New York — In this year's COP 27 two-weeklong summit in Egypt, which concludes November 18, a rough count indicates there will be 40 different sessions organised by, for, and about, religious engagements in/on climate change and related issues. This is likely the highest number of events by and around religious actors, organised at a COP event. The reason? Religions, religious engagement, interfaith, etc., are the flavour of our geopolitical times. For better or worse. His Holiness Pope Francis and His Eminence the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar were just addressing a major conference in Bahrain on East-West relations, with the King of Bahrain. After also putting in a similar appearance and speaking together with the President of Kazakhstan, in September. Both countries were hosting major international meetings of religious leaders, in the fanciest of hotels, convened from many corners of the world, replete with lavish food banquets and generous hospitality and care for their every need. I should know, as I am a most grateful recipient, albeit not a religious leader, but an aspiring servant to religious multilateralism. But I run ahead of myself here. In convening, countries appear to be competing with Saudi Arabia, which hosted such a seminal gathering (in May 2022, bringing together Buddhist and Hindu faith leaders, for the first time, as equals with their Muslim, Christian and Jewish brethren), as well as with the UAE, Qatar, and Oman, who are also hosting international gatherings of religious leaders this very month. This year alone, there have been over 50 meetings of religious actors, that is more than 2 per month, and this is not a comprehensive tally. Each of these major and rather expensive conferences, provides a platform not unlike the UN General Assembly, where each leader gets his (for invariably they are mostly men) time to speak, often eloquently, about their own faith tradition. Each of these speeches regales with how diligent the efforts of faith/community/organisations are, to secure peace and human dignity for all people. As they remind of the spiritual wisdom each faith upholds, they also speak of past and upcoming initiatives, meant to safeguard dignity for all. Sometimes they also remember to speak about the planet and our responsibility to save it. As someone who spent decades serving at the United Nations and in diverse international academic and development organisations, and now listening to the religious actors speaking, I find myself asking the same question: if each of these governments, and now these religious bodies, are working so hard and serving so amazingly, why is our world the way it is? Why are so many governments and peoples and communities at war with one another inside and outside nation-state boundaries? Why are we listening to hate speech from every type of mouth and all types of platforms given ample media attention? Why are arms and drugs the biggest industries? Why are the rich getting richer and the poor poorer while our planet becomes more bare and parched in one part, and flooded to death, in another? Why is violence of all kinds, inside families and within all communities, a pandemic? Why are medicines, and now even values, a commodity to trade power and privilege with? Why is nuclear war back on the agenda of consciousness and politics? In short, why do we hate/fear one another one another so much, and so deeply? Because what ails our multilateral system, in spite of the speeches (and efforts) of political leaders (in and out of electoral times for those fortunate enough to have genuine elections of their national leaders), and now also in spite of the speeches and works of religious actors, is fundamentally the same: each to his own. Multilateral - as an adjective defined by the Oxford Dictionary, where "three or more groups, nations, etc. take part", is an endangered species. The United Nations, the premier multilateral entity of 193 governments, is struggling to strengthen multilateralism, yet not necessarily by looking internally at its own behemoth infrastructures, or culture. Ever seen an organogramme of the United Nations system? One should. It is a universe of wonder where every human and non-human thought and action appears to have a dedicated office or structure of some sort. But before we point fingers at the political multilaterals (who are remarkably good at either ignoring faith communities, or using them to the hilt, or both), we need to ask ourselves, how often do we see or hear of "three or more" religious institutions (not of the same faith) working together to actually deliver needs to diverse peoples around the world? The answer is, that beyond the speeches, the lavish meetings and innumerable projects, multilateral religious collaboration (where money and efforts from many and diverse are pooled to serve, together, the needs of all, regardless of gender, national, ethnic, racial or religious affiliation) remains rare. Please do not misunderstand: religious institutions are working to serve hundreds of millions of people on every area of need, humanitarian and development - and now also political. Just as Indigenous Peoples are the original carers of all nature, religious leaders and institutions are the original carers for myriad human needs. There is plenty of evidence about this. HIV and AIDS, Ebola and the Covid pandemic highlighted how critical religiously managed health infrastructure is to communities - rich and poor. A glance at the education sectors, psycho-social care, migrants and displaced peoples, and other humanitarian areas of need, will show clearly that religious institutions still serve many, widely, and in the remotest areas. So, it is not a dearth of service to humanity that diverse faith actors need to come to terms with. It is the famine of multireligious collaborative services - as in giving and doing together. At Religions for Peace, for over half a century of supporting interreligious platforms serve the common good in over 95 countries, we live the challenges of multi religious collaboration, on peace mediation, food and human security, migration and displacement, education, gender and women's empowerment, and trying to save together, the world's remaining rainforests, through, among other efforts, the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative. We know that even within the realms of religion, the manner of dealing with these challenges tends to mirror prevailing colonial mindsets, with tendencies to give prominence to one religion, insistence on singular branding, and jockeying for more political influence and financial resourcing. More and more faith leaders - young and older - are (rightfully) expecting financial remuneration for their time and energies spent in international work, thus slowly but surely reversing a trend of volunteerism that used to uniquely characterise religious service and giving. Just as governments are failing to systematically work together as inhabitants and leaders of one planet, and just as too many civil society groups and corporations compete for branding and 'market share', so too, do religious organisations. Some religious entities are replicating a secular catastrophic practice of seeking to build other/new/different/more 'specialised' entities and initiatives, rather than shoulder the heavy cross of seeking to work together in spite of the damning challenges (both puns intended). In so doing, many of these religious actors are effectively dispersing efforts. One of the many lessons of failed multilateralism is that more, or different, or new and/or specialised, may well be the well-intentioned road to hell. When it comes to actually investing in one another's work so that they are speaking as one and serving together, many religious leaders and leaders of religious organisations will smile, say some nice words, and move on to the next sermon/meeting/international conference, or nevertheless doggedly pursue their own special/unique initiative(s). Such that we have now so many religious initiatives, dominated by one or a bilateral religious partnership, or two and a half (relatively tokenistic representation of another faith), working on the same challenges, facing all of humanity. What ails multilateralism is not the absence of resources, tools, values, the clarity of the crisis, or even the will and creativity to serve. Multilateralism fails when some want only their values, truths, communities, nations, cultures, security needs, and/or specific institutions, to prevail. And with the failure of multilateralism is a failure of common humanity, and planetary survival. Prof. Azza Karam is Secretary General, Religions for Peace IPS UN Bureau Follow @IPSNewsUNBureau Read the original article on IPS. Via Charles Tiayon
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"What ails multilateralism is not the absence of resources, tools, values, the clarity of the crisis, or even the will and creativity to serve. Multilateralism fails when some want only their values, truths, communities, nations, cultures, security needs, and/or specific institutions, to prevail. And with the failure of multilateralism is a failure of common humanity, and planetary survival." #metaglossia mundus 
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Already effectively disproved through the rational arguments of philosophy and the evidence of history, atheism is now being debunked by the physical sciences. [Editor’s Note: This is the tenth in a multi-part series on the unsung heroes of Christendom.]In his new book, Science at the Doorstep to God, Fr. Robert Spitzer shows that new discoveries in the physical sciences point toward the existence of God. This revolutionary new evidence for God’s existence makes atheism seem sillier than ever. Already effectively disproved through the rational arguments of philosophy and the evidence of history, atheism is now being debunked by the physical sciences. Revolutionary new evidence for God’s existence makes atheism seem sillier than ever.Tweet This Although these new discoveries in science might surprise the atheists, they should be no surprise to Catholics. The Church has always insisted on the inexorable union and indissoluble marriage of faith and reason. This is why G.K. Chesterton reminds us that the Catholic Church is the “one continuous intelligent institution that has been thinking about thinking for two thousand years.” It is also the reason that the Catholic Church has produced some of the greatest scientists who have ever lived. These scientists might not be known to Catholics, or else, if they are known as scientists, they might not be known as Catholic scientists. This being so, let’s look at a dynamic duo of great scientists who should be known—and whose Catholicism should be known. Niels Steensen (1638-1686) was a Danish scientist, better known as Nicolas Steno, the Latinized form of his name. A veritable genius and pioneer in various branches of science, he made fundamental contributions to the study of anatomy, paleontology, geology, and crystallography. Raised as a Lutheran, his study of theology, especially the writings of the early Church Fathers, led to his conversion to the Catholic Faith. He would be ordained as a priest and, in 1667, was appointed as a bishop by Pope Innocent XI. His contribution to new discoveries in science is so important that he is considered effectively to be the pioneering founder of the science of geology and particularly of the branch of geology known as stratigraphy. Such is his foundational place in the history of science that half of the twenty papers in a recently published book, The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, focus on Steno’s preeminent place as the “founder of modern geologic thought.” Apart from his scientific work, Steno lived a good and holy life. As a bishop, he worked tirelessly to counter the harmful impact of the Reformation in northern Europe. He lived a rigorously ascetic life of prayer and fasting, selling his personal possessions to give to the poor. He was beatified by St. John Paul II in 1988. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) was a mathematician and therefore not, strictly speaking, a scientist (pure mathematics being more akin to the philosophy of metaphysics than to the purely physical sciences). Nonetheless, she fits very comfortably in the company of the Catholic scientists we should know. Born in Milan, she was recognized as a child prodigy. She spoke both Italian and French by the age of five and had added five other languages by the time she was eleven: German, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Spanish. It was, however, in the field of mathematics that she is best known and most justly celebrated. She was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first person to write a textbook discussing both differential and integral calculus. She was also the first woman to be appointed as a professor of mathematics when, in 1750, she was appointed to the University of Bologna by Pope Benedict XIV. It is also worth noting that Benedict XIV was responsible for the appointment of another woman scientist, Laura Bassi, to positions at the University of Bologna. With these history-making appointments, we might consider Benedict XIV and the papacy as unsung pioneers of authentic feminism. As with Nicolas Steno, Maria Gaetana Agnesi was a devout Catholic who lived a truly inspirational life of sanctity. Like Steno, she studied theology, especially the early Church Fathers, and devoted herself to working with the poor, the homeless, and the sick. She founded the Opera Pia Trivulzio, a home for the elderly, becoming its director and living there with the nuns who ran the home. She sold her possessions and begged for money to help her in her work with the poor. She died as poor as those whom she served, being buried in a mass paupers’ grave. Whereas Maria Gaetana Agnesi’s life paralleled that of Nicolas Steno to such a remarkable degree, she has never been formally recognized by the Church in the sense of a cause for her canonization being initiated. She is, therefore, an unsung heroine even with respect to the Church. Why is this, one might ask? Is there something about her life that is problematic? Or is this simply a sin of omission awaiting rectification?Either way, it has always been a pious practice of the faithful to pray for the intercession of those whom they consider to be holy and in Heaven. It is only through such prayers that a cultus develops which leads to the cause for canonization being opened. This being so, as an act of piety, let’s ask both Nicolas Steno and Maria Gaetana Agnesi, scientists, servants of the poor, and unsung heroes of Christendom, to pray for us. Author
Joseph Pearce Joseph Pearce, a senior contributor to Crisis Magazine, is the editor of the St. Austin Review, and series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions. An acclaimed biographer and literary scholar, he is author of Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith, published by TAN Books. His website is jpearce.co. His latest book, The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: History in Three Dimensions, is published by Ignatius Press. Via Charles Tiayon
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"Already effectively disproved through the rational arguments of philosophy and the evidence of history, atheism is now being debunked by the physical sciences. [Editor’s Note: This is the tenth in a multi-part series on the unsung heroes of Christendom.]In his new book, Science at the Doorstep to God, Fr. Robert Spitzer shows that new discoveries in the physical sciences point toward the existence of God. This revolutionary new evidence for God’s existence makes atheism seem sillier than ever. Already effectively disproved through the rational arguments of philosophy and the evidence of history, atheism is now being debunked by the physical sciences. Revolutionary new evidence for God’s existence makes atheism seem sillier than ever.Tweet This Although these new discoveries in science might surprise the atheists, they should be no surprise to Catholics. The Church has always insisted on the inexorable union and indissoluble marriage of faith and reason. This is why G.K. Chesterton reminds us that the Catholic Church is the “one continuous intelligent institution that has been thinking about thinking for two thousand years.” It is also the reason that the Catholic Church has produced some of the greatest scientists who have ever lived. These scientists might not be known to Catholics, or else, if they are known as scientists, they might not be known as Catholic scientists. This being so, let’s look at a dynamic duo of great scientists who should be known—and whose Catholicism should be known. Niels Steensen (1638-1686) was a Danish scientist, better known as Nicolas Steno, the Latinized form of his name. A veritable genius and pioneer in various branches of science, he made fundamental contributions to the study of anatomy, paleontology, geology, and crystallography. Raised as a Lutheran, his study of theology, especially the writings of the early Church Fathers, led to his conversion to the Catholic Faith. He would be ordained as a priest and, in 1667, was appointed as a bishop by Pope Innocent XI. His contribution to new discoveries in science is so important that he is considered effectively to be the pioneering founder of the science of geology and particularly of the branch of geology known as stratigraphy. Such is his foundational place in the history of science that half of the twenty papers in a recently published book, The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, focus on Steno’s preeminent place as the “founder of modern geologic thought.” Apart from his scientific work, Steno lived a good and holy life. As a bishop, he worked tirelessly to counter the harmful impact of the Reformation in northern Europe. He lived a rigorously ascetic life of prayer and fasting, selling his personal possessions to give to the poor. He was beatified by St. John Paul II in 1988. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) was a mathematician and therefore not, strictly speaking, a scientist (pure mathematics being more akin to the philosophy of metaphysics than to the purely physical sciences). Nonetheless, she fits very comfortably in the company of the Catholic scientists we should know. Born in Milan, she was recognized as a child prodigy. She spoke both Italian and French by the age of five and had added five other languages by the time she was eleven: German, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Spanish. It was, however, in the field of mathematics that she is best known and most justly celebrated. She was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first person to write a textbook discussing both differential and integral calculus. She was also the first woman to be appointed as a professor of mathematics when, in 1750, she was appointed to the University of Bologna by Pope Benedict XIV. It is also worth noting that Benedict XIV was responsible for the appointment of another woman scientist, Laura Bassi, to positions at the University of Bologna. With these history-making appointments, we might consider Benedict XIV and the papacy as unsung pioneers of authentic feminism. As with Nicolas Steno, Maria Gaetana Agnesi was a devout Catholic who lived a truly inspirational life of sanctity. Like Steno, she studied theology, especially the early Church Fathers, and devoted herself to working with the poor, the homeless, and the sick. She founded the Opera Pia Trivulzio, a home for the elderly, becoming its director and living there with the nuns who ran the home. She sold her possessions and begged for money to help her in her work with the poor. She died as poor as those whom she served, being buried in a mass paupers’ grave. Whereas Maria Gaetana Agnesi’s life paralleled that of Nicolas Steno to such a remarkable degree, she has never been formally recognized by the Church in the sense of a cause for her canonization being initiated. She is, therefore, an unsung heroine even with respect to the Church. Why is this, one might ask? Is there something about her life that is problematic? Or is this simply a sin of omission awaiting rectification?Either way, it has always been a pious practice of the faithful to pray for the intercession of those whom they consider to be holy and in Heaven. It is only through such prayers that a cultus develops which leads to the cause for canonization being opened. This being so, as an act of piety, let’s ask both Nicolas Steno and Maria Gaetana Agnesi, scientists, servants of the poor, and unsung heroes of Christendom, to pray for us. Author
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