At the Vatican's Arizona observatory

Interesting story in the Science section of today's New York Times on the Vatican's observatory in Arizona. To be honest, I didn't even know -- or maybe I just forgot -- that the Vatican had an observatory on U.S. soil. I'm used to hearing about the observatory at Castel Gondolfo, but this one is on Mount Graham out in the western darkness and is run by Jesuit Father Christopher J. Corbally.

Click HERE to read the full story, which includes this passage about the Vatican's celestial searching:

"In the Vatican Observatory’s annual report, at the point where a corporation might describe its business strategy, is a section delineating the difference between creatio ex nihilo (creation from nothing) and creatio continua: “the fact that at every instant, the continued existence of the universe itself is deliberately willed by God, who in this way is continually causing the universe to remain created.”