The ideology of scientism, which holds that only the findings of the natural sciences count as truth, has worsened the conflict between faith and science. And with the two pitted against each other, and many young people not wanting to be perceived as “unscientific,” they choose the laboratory and leave the parish behind. Father Luigi Giussani, the founder of Communion and Liberation, once said, “Reality has never betrayed me.” It is this kind of fidelity to Providence, in all its dimensions, that must guide the Church’s engagement with science going forward.
