World News and Trends: Pope helps build telescope

World News and Trends

Pope helps build telescope

Posted on Feb 15, 1999 by John Ross Schroeder, Scott Ashley Estimated reading time: 0 minutes

The Vatican is helping construct one of the earth's most powerful observatories, on Mount Graham in Arizona. The purpose is to find star systems and planets capable of supporting life as we know it.

Although intricate and lawful patterns common to the material universe should direct our minds to God (Psalm 19:1-7; Romans 1:19-20), the fingerprints of our Creator are also to be found nearer at hand—in His Word, the Holy Bible. (Source: The Sunday Times [London].)

John Ross Schroeder
(1937-2014)
John died on March 8, 2014, in Oxford, England, four days after suffering cardiac arrest while returning home from a press event in London. John was 77 and still going strong.
Scott Ashley
United Church of God Pastor, Beyond Today Managing Editor
Scott Ashley is managing editor of Beyond Today magazine, United Church of God booklets and its printed Bible Study Course. He and his wife, Connie, live near Denver, Colorado.
Mr. Ashley attended Ambassador College in Big Sandy, Texas, graduating in 1976 with a theology major and minors in journalism and speech. It was there that he first became interested in publishing, an industry in which he has worked for 50 years.