By Bob Kurland, Catholic Stand - Let me add: the term “rapprochement” has been chosen with care: “an establishment or resumption of harmonious relations”… The term is applied to peace treaties after a state of war, and although the Catholic Church has not declared war on science, there are those scientists who do think there is such a war, and there are those advocates of scientism—that science explains all we need to know about the world—who have declared war on the Church. These last ignore the founding contribution of the Church to the establishment of science…