Blaise Pascal really was a gambler—at least when he was young. His highly devout parents, according to Antoine Compagnon in his short book “A Summer With Pascal,” were a bit worried when their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blaise Pascal's ideas have led to some of the world's most important inventions. API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images In an apostolic ...

Four hundred years after his birth, one of France’s most celebrated philosophers is still relevant “What a fantastic creature is man, a novelty, a monstrosity, chaotic, contradictory, prodigious, ...

To mark the quatercentenary of Pascal’s birth on June 19, 1623, the Vatican Apostolic Library showed journalists his most well-known work of Christian apologetics published posthumously from his notes ...

“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I ...

Readers of the Italian newspaper La Repub­blica have been following a series of freewheeling conversations between Pope Francis and Eugenio Scalfari, the paper’s founder and a celebrated atheist now ...

(The Conversation) — Blaise Pascal, a mathematician and a Catholic theologian, born 400 years ago, left a deep and lasting influence on the world that can be felt today. In fact, Pascal’s influence in ...