The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-06-14
THE CHURCH AND SCIENCE

THE CHURCH AND SCIENCE.
MGR. BENSON CITES NUMEROUS
PROOFS TO SHOW THAT THERE
IS NO ANTAGONIST BETWEEN
THEM-cATHoLIc PIONEERS IN
THE DOMAIN OF SCIENCE.
Right Reverend Mgr. Robert Hugh
Benson, in his admirable treatise on
Catholics and the Future tells how
some have cried out in their ignor-
ance: II have searched the universe
with my telescope and / have not
found God, have searched the human
body with my microscope and ! have
not found the SOUL
AS well, he exclaims, may such a
one declare, Il have smelt Botticella's
Primavera and | have detected no
odor of beauty; l have licked violin
all over, but / can find in it no pas
sion or harmony
Religion" said Bishop Creighton,
means the knowledge of our destiny
and of the means of fulfilling it, We
can say no more and no less of
science
The Canon of the Cathedral of
Frauenburg, better known as Copper
nicus, one of the greatest astrono-
mers who ever studied the heavens,
desired that there should be in
Il ask not the grace accorded to ST..
Paul, nor that given to st. Peter;
give me only the favor Thou didst
show the thief on the cross!"
Leaders in Electricity.
Galvani, born in Bologna in 1877,
one of the earliest and greatest dis
coverers in the realm of electricity,
whose name is perpetuated in our
words: ''galvanism,' "galvanic bat
| terry" and galvanized iron," was evil
IDENTIFY a man of more than merely
nominal Catholic beliefs, since it is
recorded in his life that he made a
novena to our Lady in order to be
guided Alright in his choice of a wife,
an act which proclaims his prudence
as well as his faith.
The term volt" the unit of electro
motive force, owes it's name to Volta,
a great physicist, who amongst other
things discovered the electrical de-
composition of water. He was a
/ IN In
was professor of natural philosophy
in Pavia.
Scarcely less frequently do we hear
of the "ampere," which is the unit of
current of electricity Ampere, to
whom it owes it's name, was Catho-
lie, born in Lyons in 1775. He was
professor in the College de France.
Rontgen, the discoverer of the x
rays, was a faithful son of the
Church.
Leaders in Biology
No person doubts the sincerity of
Pasteur's attachment to the Catholic
faith 1t was he who said that the
more he knew, the more his faith as
simulated itself to that of Breton
peasant, and that he was quite sure
that if he knew as much as he wanted
to know, his faith would be as great
as that of the Breton peasants wife.
In the center of the great edifice of
science, which has arisen as his me-
mortal in Paris, there is chapel,
where all that is mortal of Pasteur
rests, and where Mass is said on each
anniversary of his death for the re-
pose of his soul.
Schwann, the discoverer of the cell
theory, on which the whole science of
histology, normal and pathological, is
built, was a Catholic.
Johannes Muller, after whom the
Mullerian ducts are named, one of the
greatest biologists of the last cen
fury, was Catholic.
Claude Bernard, a psychologist of
the very first ranks, abandoned his
religion, became a professed materi-
alist, and again returned to the faith
before his death and died in full com
munion with the Church.
Leader of Anatomists.
Nicolaus Stensen, after whom is
named Stensen's duct, one of the
greatest anatomists, was a convert to
the Church. He was born of Lutheran
parents, in Copenhagen, in the year
1888. While still Lutheran, he went
to Florence and became physician to
the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in
that city Stensen owed his CONVEX
sion to his connection with this hos
pital, for in the apothecary's depart
ment, acting as dispenser, was an old
nun, who never left OFF arguing with
Stensen and praying for him until she
had brought him into the Church. Aft
er his conversion he was made pro-
lessor of anatomy in Copenhagen, but
his change of religion having aroused
his fellow townsmen, he returned to
Italy, refused several important posi-
tions offered to him, entered an eccle-
siastical seminary and died Bishop
of Hamburg. Besides being an emf
nent anatomist, Stensen ranks as one
of the foremost biologists. When the
International Congress of Biologists
met in Bologna in 1881 they erected a
tablet to his memory commemorating
his achievements
Father Of Diagnosis.