Rev. Paul Sullins , associate professor of sociology and Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies fellow, was quoted in an Oct. 28 U.S. News & World Report article about comments Pope Francis made regarding faith and science.

From: U.S. News & World Report Date: Oct. 28, 2014 Author: Teresa Welsh

... Rev. Paul Sullins of the Catholic University of America says that the Big Bang Theory was embraced by Catholics and most Protestants when it was first explained.

"The scientific idea that everything began at a moment of time is very consistent with the idea that there's a personal creator God who spake the world into existence in a moment of time," Sullins says. "The mythopoeic account that we read in Genesis is very consistent with the scientific account of the Big Bang."

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