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On faith, science, and vocation: A dialogue with Father Paul Gabor, S.J.

  • Writer: HORIZON
    HORIZON
  • May 1
  • 9 min read

By Jesús Leyva


When we pray, our prayer is an event in spacetime. God, who is eternal, perceives all events, the entirety of spacetime in the eternal Now. Specifically, God hears our prayers in eternity and may tweak the creation according to our prayers from eternity. Photo By Greg Rakozy Unsplash
When we pray, our prayer is an event in spacetime. God, who is eternal, perceives all events, the entirety of spacetime in the eternal Now. Specifically, God hears our prayers in eternity and may tweak the creation according to our prayers from eternity. Photo By Greg Rakozy Unsplash

THE PATH TO VOCATION is not always straightforward. For Father Paul Gabor, the call to the priesthood first emerged while he was growing up in Communist-era Czechoslovakia, where the Church lived under strict government control. What followed was an unexpected detour through the world of physics, including research at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), before he entered the Society of Jesus and discovered that his scientific training was part of his vocation.

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