Pope appoints Catholic Harvard professor to Vatican social sciences academy

Pope Leo XIV has appointed a Harvard University epidemiology professor and director of the Human Flourishing Program to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.Tyler J. VanderWeele, a Catholic, is also co-director of the Initiative on Health, Spirituality, and Religion at Harvard University and a contributor to the Institute for Family Studies, which promotes traditional marriage and family structures.VanderWeele joins 35 other ordinary members — academics and professionals in the fields of law, political science, economics, and sociology — at the…