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15 DENVER CATHOLIC | MAY 13-26, 2017 Your Help is needed. Your Help is needed. Thank you Thank you for your generosity! INTERIOR PAINTING & CLEANING INTERIOR PAINTING & CLEANING PROTECTION OF SACRED ITEMS, INTERIOR PAINTING & CLEANING PROTECTION OF SACRED ITEMS, ACCESS, SECURITY, FIRE SAFETY, There are several ways to donate: by mail, online, by kiosk at the Cathedral, or with a monthly or quarterly pledge amount. Visit www.denvercathedral.org or call us at 303-831-7010 for more information on contributing. Your Help is needed. All donations are tax deductible $2.3 million $2.3 million $4.4 million $4.4 million COLLECTED TO DATE: $129,580 COLLECTED TO DATE: $83,350 COLLECTED TO DATE: $129,580 COLLECTED TO DATE: $83,350 EXTERIOR EXTERIOR FAÇADE EXTERIOR FAÇADE REPAIR Be a Part of the Second Century Cathedral Basilica Immaculate Conception!! of the of the Your façade contributions will help repair and replace the missing, cracked and broken stone and carvings which have become a safety hazard. Your interior improvement contributions will address access, security, safety, wall and altar repairs. Help us preserve our historic and iconic Cathedral Basilica for the next 100 years. Father Ron Cattany - Pastor and Rector SAMARITAN HOUSE TEAM SAMARITAN HOUSE TEAM SamHouseDenver.org/RTR DONATE ONLINE TODAY! JUNE 10-17, 2017 For seven consecutive years, Team Samaritan House has biked in Ride the Rockies to support the men, women, and children who call Samaritan House their temporary home. This year the team of 44 riders will attempt to raise more than $150,000 for Colorado's homeless. Join us in support of all those in need of hope and dignity. SamHouseDenver.org/RTR TWO PURSUITS, ONE TRUTH Brother Consolmagno is far from the only religious with this attitude toward science. Father Tomasz Strze- bonski, parochial vicar at St. Clare of Assisi Parish in Edwards, has a degree in theoretical physics — a product of his knack for¡breaking things and putting them back together as a child in Poland. He also grew up in a devoutly Catholic family, and faith was an important part of his life. "I always had two worlds, but I never saw them as separate. I always saw them mingled together and I think that's my perspective of how I see the relation- ship between faith and science," Father Strzebonski said. Science is propelled by questions, Father Strzebonski explained, and the main contention between faith and science lies in the other side's unwill- ingness to ask questions. In questioning things — whether they be scientifi c theories or matters of dogma in the Church — people come to a greater understanding of how things work. "With science, you're not really changing the way the universe works, you're gaining more of an understanding of it," Father Strzebonski said. "It's the same thing with the Church. We're not changing things — faith is there, God is there — we're just gaining more of an understanding of it. An understanding of God though faith, and an understand- ing of the universe through science." In a way, Father Strzebonski explained,¡ both faith and science are chasing after the same end: truth. "Both are seeking the truth. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. When we are deepening our faith, we are get- ting closer to the truth," he said. "The scientist, [too], is looking for the truth [about the universe]." Brother Guy Consolmagno. PHOTO BY ANDREW WRIGHT

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