Frits Albers compiled a comprehensive exposition and summary of the principles of science, and philosophy as it pertains to science, taught by His Holiness Pope Pius XII in nine addresses on science and scientific subjects and in one encyclical.  The Pope explains the worth and necessity of true science and its rightful place in society, the pitfalls of pseudo-science, and the intellectual and moral obligations of scientists; not only as scientists engaged in highly specialized occupations, but as responsible and mature citizens of a society greatly impacted and formed by their work.

The first principle of the papal synthesis, the one from which all others radiate, is the certitude that true science should lead the scientist to a personal belief in God. This foremost principle and propositions which lead to it as well as those which follow upon it, form the basis for the type of science courses that should be taught in Catholic Schools and Universities. 

The author presented his exposition of Papal Teaching in such a way that the principles to follow and the errors to avoid are clearly marked out and separated in successive sections of the book. The blue-print is easy to follow and should give instruction, encouragement and fresh heart to the beleaguered Catholic science teacher or professor.

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Frits Albers Ph. B (1921-2000) was born in Holland and studied under the Jesuits at Nijmegen during the 1940s.  He emigrated to Australia in 1951, and travelled extensively within the south-east region of the ‘lucky country’.  He joined the Department of Education in Victoria and worked as a high school teacher who specialised in mathematics, French and English.

In the early post Vatican II period he realised that the strange interpretations of the recently concluded Council that were being forced upon Catholics were under pinned by the same philosophy he had been taught in the 1940’s by the Jesuits at Nijmegen in the name of St Thomas Aquinas, but which in reality was the systematic Modernism of Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, S.J. Thus, in the early 1970’s he began writing articles and books to expose the philosophical root of these errors and aberrations of Teilhard De Chardin, and to defend Catholic Faith, clear thinking, and right philosophy.

The editor is a retired electrical engineer who worked for most of his professional career in the specialist area of power generation. In a sabbatical year, he completed post graduate research in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne. He has long loved the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas.