Like the Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, Robert Barron, I know a few Catholic leaders who are capable of using social media and other technological tools to communicate faith with clarity, conservatism and depth. Last Sunday, when the Lord’s Epiphany was celebrated in many countries – the exact date of the celebration is today, although the sixth – the Baron published his Weekly talk on YouTube He took the opportunity to talk about the myth of the conflict between science and faith.

The Baron recalls that the magicians who came from the East to worship the newborn King of the Jews were the intellectual elite of their time and for them the idea of ​​a conflict between science and religion would be unimaginable. For many of the great minds who led the intellectual revolution – even Galileo, many used it as the final example of this concept. Look at how well the Baron moves between the history of witchcraft and the thoughts of Benedict XVI and John Paul II, remembering that every scientist seeks logos deeply through his work and that the Catholic Church has always rejected trivial beliefs. From intellectual disorder and from philosophy and then from science.

In this January 6 scrap, one can enjoy Bishop Baron’s words and hope that they will reach out to young people who are misled by the popular and seductive misinterpretation of the conflict between science and faith, especially the youth he referred to at the beginning of his sermon.