Blaise Pascal really was a gambler—at least when he was young. His highly devout parents, according to Antoine Compagnon in his short book “A Summer With Pascal,” were a bit worried when their ...
To mark the quatercentenary of Pascal’s birth on June 19, 1623, the Vatican Apostolic Library showed journalists his most well-known work of Christian apologetics published posthumously from his notes ...
(The Conversation) — Blaise Pascal, a mathematician and a Catholic theologian, born 400 years ago, left a deep and lasting influence on the world that can be felt today. In fact, Pascal’s influence in ...
Pope Francis published an apostolic letter on Monday praising the 17th-century mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal as “a tireless seeker of truth.” Pascal (1623–1662) was a French scientist ...
“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I ...
Readers of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica have been following a series of freewheeling conversations between Pope Francis and Eugenio Scalfari, the paper’s founder and a celebrated atheist now ...
Ismar David immediately felt Blaise Pascal’s compassion and purity of thought, reaching out from the seventeenth century to our time. “Reading Pascal, one is filled with the conviction that this man ...
On the 400th anniversary of the birth of Blaise Pascal, the Vatican Library displayed first editions of some of his most famous works. Pope Francis published an apostolic letter earlier this week ...
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