Faith and Science at Notre Dame: John Zahm, Evolution, and the Catholic ChurchThe Reverend John Augustine Zahm, CSC, (1851 1921) was a Holy Cross priest, an author, a South American explorer, and a science professor and vice president at the University of Notre Dame, the latter at the age of twenty five. Through his scientific writings, Zahm argued that Roman Catholicism was fully compatible with an evolutionary view of biological systems. Ultimately Zahm's ideas were not accepted in his lifetime and he was prohibited from