Pope Francis published an apostolic letter on Monday praising the 17th-century mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal as “a tireless seeker of truth.” Pascal (1623-1662) was a French scientist ...

The philosopher, theologian, and mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) came up with a simple argument for why people should believe in God. Unlike other philosophers of his day, he didn’t try to ...

On the 400th anniversary of the birth of Blaise Pascal, the Vatican Library displayed first editions of some of his most famous works. Pope Francis published an apostolic letter earlier this week ...

The wager only scratches the surface of his relevance to a post-Christian era. It is a common lament that we live in a post-Christian era. This fact raises challenges to our witness to the world. Most ...

In 1654, the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal explained the logic of believing in God, expressed as a wager. The cost to a believer of wrongly placing faith is trivial, but the cost ...