Faith or Reason? Nope! Faith AND Reason

Heather Foucault-Camm PGCE, MSc, MA ’23 is the Program Director for the Science and Religion Initiative (SRI) at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, where she develops the pedagogical components of SRI programming, and delivers presentations on Bioethics, Technology, and Chemistry. A veteran science teacher and curriculum designer, she has a BSc and MSc in the field of Chemistry (Chemical Physics), a PGCE, an M.A. in Theology (Notre Dame) and she continues to work on her PhD in Moral Theology (Notre Dame). Heather’s scholarly work focuses on the social implications of emerging technologies, with a particular influence on Artificial Intelligence. Heather is a Scholar Associate of the Society of Catholic Scientists, upon special invitation from its Board, and is a Lay Dominican of the Province of St. Albert the Great.

Dr. Chris Baglow leads the Science & Religion Initiative through creating programs, courses, talks, and publications that bring the Catholic faith and modern science into dialogue. His work is the culmination of 20 years of faith and science scholarship, publication and educational program creation, as well as a lengthy career in Catholic theological education spanning high-school, undergraduate, graduate and seminary teaching. In his seven years as Director, SRI has seen major growth, reaching thousands of Catholic leaders and educators from diocesan offices and parishes, but above all science and religion teachers from Catholic high schools, supported by three successive grants from the John Templeton Foundation. For this work, he was co-recipient of an Expanded Reason Award in Teaching from the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Madrid) and the Vatican Joseph Ratzinger Foundation (Rome) in 2018.