Filming on Silence, the epic tale of Jesuit priests struggling to spread the Faith in 17th-Century Japan begins in September, with Ireland’s Liam Neeson in the lead role.   Earlier this year it was confirmed that, following years of delay on the project, the Martin Scorsese-directed film will finally reach the screen, telling the story…

A member of the Vatican Observatory has been honoured for his “outstanding” work in astronomy Jesuit Br Guy Consolmagno, who is also the curator of the Vatican’s meteorite collection has been named a recipient of the Carl Sagan Medal, bestowed by the American Astronomical Society, which cited the Jesuit’s “outstanding communication by an active planetary…