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ITEST Webinars

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The Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (ITEST) is an association of theologians, scientists, technology specialists, clergy, teachers, students, and others committed to a Catholic world view in which faith and science collaborate in exploring the truth. ITEST explores truth theologically in the wisdom traditions of the human community and in the data studied in the sciences.

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  1. ITEST Webinar The New Genetic Medicine (April 18, 2026)

    The New Genetic Medicine: Miraculous Cures, Ethically Challenging Advances, or Both? This webinar was presented on April 18, 2026 Our presenters Fr. Kevin FitzGerald, SJ, PhD, PhD The New Genetic Medicine: Miraculous Cures, Ethically Challenging Advances, or Both? Kevin T. FitzGerald, S.J.…

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  2. ITEST Webinar: Can AI Have a Soul? What Theology, Psychiatry, and Science Fiction Say (February 7, 2026)

    Robert Kurland, Ph.D. Can AI Have a Soul? What Science Fiction Says Dr. Robert Kurland, a convert to Catholicism in 1995, is a retired physicist who has applied magnetic resonance to problems of biological interest in his research (web search: “Kurland-McGarvey Equation”). Dr. Kurland is a…

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  3. ITEST Webinar Why the Unborn Matter with Randal Mandock and Francis Etheredge (December 6, 2025)

    In this webinar sponsored by the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology, Randal Mandock and Francis Etheredge present on Why the Unborn Matter. Our presenters Randal Mandock, PhD A Rational Case for Life Dr. Randal Mandock balanced careers in science and religious...

  4. ITEST Webinar Challenges and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence: The MagisAI App (October 18, 2025)

    In this webinar hosted by the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology and the Magis Center, Fr. Robert J. Spitzer introduces the Magis AI app. Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, SJ, PhD Challenges and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence: The MagisAI App Fr. Robert J. Spitzer…

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  5. ITEST Webinar The Holy See and the United Nations: The International Conference on Population & Development (Cairo, 1994) (August 30, 2025)

    The Holy See and the United Nations: The International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994) as a Case Study Presenters: Jane Adolphe, LLB/BCL/JCL/JCD Dr. Jane F. Adolphe is a professor of law at Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Florida (2001-present), with degrees in common…

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  6. ITEST Webinar Bioethics & AI as Human Flourishing: Where Catholic & Orthodox Social Teaching meet in One Christian Social Ethos Jun 14, 2025

    In this episode of I Thought You'd Like to Know This, Too, ITEST presents a webinarentitled "Bioethics & AI as Human Flourishing: Where Catholic & Orthodox Social Teaching meet in One Christian Social Ethos" (June 14, 2025) Dr. Constantine Psimopoulos BIOETHICS AND AI AS HUMAN FLOURISHING: WHERE...

  7. ITEST Webinar AI and Sin: Medieval Robots and the Theology of Technology (April 5, 2025)

    In this webinar entitled AI and Sin: Medieval Robots and the Theology of Technology, hosted by the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology, Dr. Chris Reilly and Dr. Jordan Joseph Wales offer their insights into the promises and challenges of Artificial Intelligence. (April...

  8. ITEST Webinar on The Anthropic Principle with Dr. Bob Kurland and Dr. William M. Briggs (February 22, 2025)

    Bob Kurland's Slide Links In all protein functions, parts of the proteins bind loosely to other parts of the protein and thus form appropriate structures that are essential to their function. This is shown very nicely in this TED YouTube video, by Professor Ken Dill...

  9. ITEST Webinar Christ, Science, and Reason (November 16, 2024)

    Christ, Science, and Reason: What We Can Know about Jesus, Mary, and Miracles. Our presenters Christ, Science, and Reason: What We Can Know about Jesus, Mary, and Miracles Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, SJ, PhD Father Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D. is President of the Spitzer-Magis Center of Reason and...

  10. ITEST Webinar Brain and Artificial Intelligence: A Tale of Two Computers, but Only One Made in the Image of God (October 12, 2024)

    In this ITEST webinar, Dr. Rob Koons and Dr. Terrence Lagerlund deliver talks on Brain and Artificial Intelligence: A Tale of Two Computers, but Only One Made in the Image of God (October 12, 2024) AI and Aristotle: Why No Artifact could ever be Conscious Robert C. (“Rob”) Koons is a professor of...

  11. ITEST Webinar A New Understanding of Quantum Mechanics: Back to Aristotle and Aquinas (August 17, 2024)

    In this ITEST webinar entitled "A New Understanding of Quantum Mechanics: Back to Aristotle and Aquinas" Dr. Robert Kurland, Kenneth Francis, and Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, discuss metaphysics, epistemology, and quantum physics. (August 17, 2024) In the order of appearance, Sebastian Mahfood, OP,...

  12. ITEST Webinar Abortion Pill Reversal - Truth or Fiction (June 8, 2024)

    ABORTION PILL REVERSAL – TRUTH OR FICTION? Abortion Pill Reversal - Truth or Fiction? - Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (faithscience.org) OUR PRESENTERS STEPHEN SAMMUT, PHD ABORTION-PILL REVERSAL: PRECLINICAL EVIDENCE Dr. Stephen Sammut received a B.Pharm from...

  13. ITEST Webinar How Does Social Media Affect Children (April 13, 2024)

    In this webinar of the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology, Sr. Marysia Weber, RSM, and Dr. Kevin Powell, discuss the effects of social media on children. (April 13, 2024) Is the increasing number of hours that children are spending using smartphones having any effects...

  14. ITEST Webinar Teaching Research Processes Webinar (February 24, 2024)

    WILLIAM BADKE - ENGAGING FACULTY IN TEACHING RESEARCH PROCESSES William Badke grew up in Kelowna, BC, Canada. After completing a B.A. at the University of British Columbia in 1971 and a Master of Divinity (1975) and Master of Theology (1977) he taught at a college in Nigeria, West Africa for two...

  15. ITEST Webinar "Bridging the Chasm: Quantum Mechanics and Christian Spirituality" (December 16, 2023)

    In this ITEST Webinar "Bridging the Chasm: Quantum Mechanics and Christian Spirituality," Dr. Bob Kurland and Dr. Terrence Lagerlund (December 16, 2023) BRIDGING THE CHASM: HOW QUANTUM MECHANICS BRINGS TOGETHER THE PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL WORLDS BY TERRENCE D. LAGERLUND, MD, PHD Dr. Terrence...

  16. ITEST Webinar "Science, Reason, and Faith: Discovering the Bible" with Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, SJ, and Dr. Tom Sheahen (December 2, 2023)

    ITEST Webinar entitled "Science, Reason, and Faith: Discovering the Bible" with Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, SJ, and Dr. Tom Sheahen (December 2, 2023) Built into our very nature is a desire to know about the world around us. The big questions of human existence are inescapable: Who am I? Why am I…

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  17. ITEST Webinar Education and Evangelization in the Age of AI: Promise and Perils (November 18, 2023)

    In this episode of I Thought You'd Like to Know This, Too, the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology presents Greg Miller and Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, in a webinar entitled Education and Evangelization in the Age of AI: Promise and Perils (November 18, 2023) his…

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  18. ITEST Webinar Principles of Change with Dr. Kristina Olsen, OCDS (November 4, 2023)

    In this webinar, D. Kristina Olsen, OCDS, talks about Principles of Change: Teresa of Avila’s Carmelite Reform and Insights from Change Management (November 4, 2023) Dr. Olsen's book draws from organizational change management principles to examine Teresa of Avila’s 16th-century reform of the...

  19. ITEST Webinar Surviving Abortion Inside and Out (October 21, 2023)

    DR. PATRICK CASTLE LIFE Runners President & Founder REAL HEALTHCARE DEFENDS LIFE AT ALL STAGES ABSTRACT Did you know that Hippocratic Oath specifically forbids abortion and euthanasia? Did you know the American Medical Association in 1859 unanimously voted that life begins at conception and that...

  20. ITEST Webinar Science at the Doorstep to God (September 23, 2023)

    In this ITEST Webinar, "Science at the Doorstep to God," Fr. Robert Spitzer presents on his latest book, Science at the Doorstep to God, which is an especially important book at the present time because the realization that our universe had to be created by a super-intelligent Transcendent Being…

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  21. ITEST Webinar A Crucial Choice of World Views for the Future with Fr. Joseph Bracken, SJ (September 2, 2023)

    Classical metaphysics is grounded in a philosophy of Being (States of Being) with God as the Supreme Being or Pure Actuality. Potentiality is seen in descending states of being: first, the order of angels, human beings, higher-order and lower-order animal species, plants, insects, minerals, their...

  22. ITEST Webinar: Catholic Higher Education in a Culture of Death (August 5, 2023)

    ITEST Presents... CATHOLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN A CULTURE OF DEATH: CREATING THE WORLD’S MOST FAITHFUL CATHOLIC MEDICAL SCHOOL STEPHEN MINNIS, President of Benedictine College, JERE PALAZZOLO, President of Catholic Healthcare International, GEORGE MYCHASKIW, II, DO, President of the Saint Padre…

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  23. ITEST Webinar Sowing Wildflowers in the Desert (July 13, 2023)

    In this webinar we will discuss the work of Mary Kloska’s books in renewing and spreading the Catholic faith in Pakistan. Joined by Aqif Shahzad, her translator and a great missionary in his own right, the two will explain specifically the founding of Children’s Prayer Groups (named Children of…

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  24. ITEST Webinar Treating Human Embryos as Human Patients (June 24, 2023)

    The heinous scientific experiments performed on living human beings at the hands of Nazi doctors and researchers was internationally condemned and prohibited as “crimes against humanity” by the Nuremberg Code that was formulated seventy-five years ago in August 1947. In 1987, forty years later…

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  25. ITEST Webinar "Addressing the Ethics of Disputed Medical Treatments" (May 27, 2023)

    FR. KEVIN FITZGERALD, SJ, PHD, PHD ​Healing Post-Covid Healthcare by Greater Integration of the Humanities and Ethics into Healthcare Education Kevin T. FitzGerald, S.J., Ph.D., Ph.D., is the John A. Creighton University Professor and chair of the Department of Medical Humanities in the School of...

  26. ITEST Webinar Finding God in Space Exploration and Extraterrestrial Life (April 22, 2023)

    In this ITEST Webinar entitled Finding God in Space Exploration and Extraterrestrial Life (April 22, 2023), Paul Segura and Ted Peters talk about space and the possibility of life outside the earth. The Space Race to the Moon in the 1960s is an example of science and engineering excellence…

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  27. ITEST Webinar Preaching with the Sciences with Rev. Edward Foley, Cap., Dr. Grace Wolf-Chase, and Rev. Gerald C. Liu

    PREACHING WITH THE SCIENCES AND THE SCIENCE OF PREACHING - FR. FOLEY’S ABSTRACT The sciences are seldom employed by Roman Catholic preachers in their homilies. This presentation will narrate how they became important for my own preaching, which in turn generated the grant in preaching from the...

  28. ITEST Evangelizing the Real Presence – Miracles, Scripture, and Quantum Physics (February 18, 2023)

    In this ITEST Webinar, entitled Evangelizing the Real Presence – Miracles, Scripture, and Quantum Physics, Dr. David Keys and Raymond Gerard present on the Eucharist. Recognizing the importance of the Eucharist in today’s challenging culture, the USCCB has begun a 3-year initiative to promote…

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  29. ITEST Webinar "Why Science is Not God" with Dr. Bob Kurland and Sr. Carla Mae Streeter, OP

    For the Time Dilation Video, click here: https://youtu.be/yuD34tEpRFw WCAT TV is an en air wing of En Route Books and Media working with WCAT Radio to share the joys of the Catholic faith. To support the station, please visit our Patreon account at https://www.patreon.com/wcatradio Is science…

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  30. ITEST Dr. Gerard Verschuuren and Dr. Stacy Trasancos on Faith That Makes You Think (December 10, 2022)

    In this episode of I Thought You'd Like to Know This, Too, ITEST presents a webinar with Dr. Gerard Verschuuren and Dr. Stacy Trasancos on Faith That Makes You Think (December 10, 2022) Can faith ever make you think? For most people, thinking contradicts having faith. People who think do not have...

  31. ITEST Dr. Thomas Sheahen and Dr. Stacy Trasancos present on How Science and Theology Read One Another (October 29, 2022)

    Dr. Thomas Sheahen and Dr. Stacy Trasancos present on How Science and Theology Read One Another (October 29, 2022) Pope St. John Paul II began his famous encyclical, “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.” Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen, with a...

  32. ITEST Fr. Thomas Davis on Bioethics, Babies & Bromides: Truth and Meaning in Constitutional Jurisprudence (September 10, 2022)

    This webinar will develop essential American Constitutional law principles and their relationship to the most significant bioethical issues of the day. Without this knowledge, meaningful participation in ongoing debates related to bioethics is seriously compromised. Topics will include the…

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  33. ITEST Webinar: A Post-Roe World Webinar with Pat Castle and Kiki Latimer (082022)

    In this webinar entitled "A Post-Roe World," Dr. Pat Castle and Kiki Latimer offer their insights into the science of the human person and the morality of abortion. Moderated by Francis Etheredge. With the overturn of Roe, let us double down in our ministry to eliminate abortion from every...

  34. An ITEST Webinar - Food, Logic, & Creation: Does STEM Help Form Better Catholics? (July 23, 2022)

    * Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Abstract for Webinar Signature Courses at Seton Hall: STEM engages the Catholic Intellectual Tradition The SHU University Core—taken by all undergraduate students—includes a sequence of three Signature courses. These are rooted in questions...

  35. ITEST Webinar: "What does it mean to speak freely in today's world?" (June 25, 2022)

    In an age of communicative media, free speech appears to be ubiquitous. Anyone can say anything in any of a hundred social media apps that can go viral worldwide in an instant throughout all of them. And this opens the thoughts of anyone to the commentary of anyone else. But are there limits on...

  36. ITEST Webinar: Center for the Study of the Great Ideas "Philosophy is Everybody's Business” (May 28, 2022)

    The only standard we have for judging all of our social economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad, as better or worse, derives from our conception of the good life for man on earth, and from our conviction that, given certain external conditions, it…

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  37. ITEST: A Webinar with Dr. Stephen Barr on Dr. Gerard Verschuuren's A Beautiful Mind and Soul (May 14, 2022)

    How can a Catholic scientist speak about “a beautiful mind and soul”? Dr. Gerard Verschuuren does so as a Catholic who knows that science has nothing to say about mind and soul, but also that science has nothing to say against it. Using a lively, conversational dialog between a skeptical…

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  38. ITEST Faith and Facebook Webinar (April 23, 2022)

    Fr. Dominic Ibok, D.Min., presents on his Faith and Facebook: Evangelizing a Rural Parish Community in Southeast Missouri through Social Media with Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, as respondent for the April 23, 2022, ITEST webinar. The book description is below: In Southeast Missouri, where Catholics...

  39. ITEST Conscious Energy Webinar - Joe Provenzano, Dcn. Ron Morgan, and Dan Provenzano (March 19, 2022)

    ITEST has the challenge to engage the young and the old by showing how science and faith are compatible. Many have left our Church. Many more will leave if they do not hear something different and compelling. In this webinar we will discuss what the Philosophy of Conscious Energy is and how it…

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  40. ITEST Webinar - Transhumanism and Transcendence: What are We Becoming? (February 12, 2022)

    This webinar focuses on the philosophical movement of Transhumanism and its quest to transcend biological limits toward enhanced life. The emphasis on transhumanist transcendence will be compared to the hybridity of posthumanism. Both movements will be contextualized within an evolutionary...

  41. ITEST Webinar - Assessing Contemporary Science in the Light of Faith (January 15, 2022)

    In this episode of I Thought You'd Like to Know, Dr. Stacy Trasancos presents for the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology on Assessing Contemporary Science in the Light of Faith. (January 15, 2022) Today we hear, “Follow the science!” People use that idiom as if to say...

  42. ITEST Everywhen: God, Symmetry, and Time (December 11, 2021)

    In this episode of I Thought You'd Like to Know This, Too, Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen and Rev. Lawrence C. Brennan, S.Th.D., discuss God's providence and omnipresence. (December 11, 2021) Have you been told that science and religion are incompatible? Do you think you have to give one up to be...

  43. ITEST Do You Believe? The Theology and Science of the Eucharist (November 20, 2021)

    DR. STACY TRASANCOS The Data from the Eucharistic Miracles In writing her latest book with Fr. George Elliott, Behold It is I: Scripture, Tradition, and Science on the Real Presence (Tan Books), Stacy Trasancos had to look deep into the data from the investigations of Eucharistic miracles. What…

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  44. ITEST Webinar - Counterfeit: The Psychology of Pornography (October 23, 2021)

    The Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology presents Dr. Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco in Counterfeit: The Psychology of Pornography -- The Science, the Effect on your Marriage or Vocation, and the Gospel Take on It (October 23, 2021) This presentation will look at...

  45. Romuald Simeone presents on Christ's Dialogue Method of Witnessing, Part 2: Becoming Witnesses of Jesus (September 5, 2021)

    In this episode of I Thought You'd Like to Know, Catholic missionary and evangelist Romuald Simeone presents on Christ's Dialogue Method of Witnessing, Part 2: Becoming Witnesses of Jesus (September 5, 2021)

  46. Romuald Simeone presents the Dialogue Method that Jesus Used to Gospel Witness (September 4, 2021)

    In this episode of I Thought You'd Like to Know, Catholic missionary and evangelist Romuald Simeone presents on The Dialogue Method that Jesus Used to Gospel Witness. (September 4, 2021)

  47. Romuald Simeone presents The Gospel of John: Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? with ITEST (August 28, 2021)

    In this episode of I Thought You'd Like to Know, Catholic missionary and evangelist Romuald Simeone presents The Gospel of John: Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? with ITEST (August 28, 2021)

  48. The Fallen Angel Model hosted by the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (July 31, 2021)

    In this episode of I Thought You'd Like to Know This, Too, the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology hosts Joe Provenzano, Ron Morgan, and Dan Provenzano as they discuss the idea within their book that the fall of the angels may have resulted in the creation of the...

  49. ITEST Media Bias Webinar with Dr. Peter Redpath and Dr. Tom Sheahen (June 19, 2021)

    In this webinar hosted by the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology, Dr. Peter Redpath and Dr. Tom Sheahen speak on the topic of Media Bias. (June 19, 2021) https://faithscience.org/media-bias/

  50. ITEST welcomes Dr. Charles Robertson and Dr. Elizabeth Rex on Embryo Adoption (May 8, 2021)

    ITEST welcomes Dr. Charles Robertson and Dr. Elizabeth Rex on Embryo Adoption (May 8, 2021) For more, visit https://faithscience.org/embryo-adoption/

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The Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (ITEST) is an association of theologians, scientists, technology specialists, clergy, teachers, students, and others committed to a Catholic world view in which faith and science collaborate in exploring the truth. ITEST explores truth theologically in the wisdom traditions of the human community and in the data studied in the sciences.

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