GENEVA — A senior Vatican delegation visited the world’s biggest nuclear physics laboratory, proclaiming that true faith has no problems with science.
The Roman Catholic Church was represented by Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, Vatican City’s governor, as it toured the CERN facility and its 17-mile proton accelerator this week. It welcomed any breakthroughs physicists could provide on understanding the basis of the universe, and said they would also advance religion.
“The Church never fears the truth of science, because we are convinced that all truth comes from God,” Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, Vatican City’s governor, said Thursday in Geneva.
Lajolo said scientific truths could “correct some of our opinions” about scripture and faith. He said nothing in science could contradict the Holy Scriptures — only interpretations — because both were rooted in God.
Lajolo spoke a day after visiting the laboratory beneath the Swiss-French border.
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