A Jesuit's Guide to the Stars

Jesuit spirituality is centered on “finding God in all things.” What better represents “all things” than the universe itself? Jesuits have figured prominently in the history of astronomy, engaging both the mind and the heart... the mathematical and scientific study of the phenomena, and also its history and philosophy, and its reflections in art, photography, and poetry… how we find God in the joy we experience observing the sky.

Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ is Director Emeritus of the Vatican Observatory. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he earned undergraduate and masters' degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Ph.D. in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard and MIT, served in the US Peace Corps (Kenya), and taught physics at Lafayette College before entering the Jesuits in 1989. At the Vatican Observatory since 1993, his research explores the evolution of meteorites and small solar system bodies

Along with more than 300 scientific publications, he is the author of a dozen popular books including Turn Left at Orion (with Dan Davis), Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial? (with Paul Mueller), and A Jesuit’s Guide to the Stars.