As a
catholic, I'm very proud of the fact that there's an astronomical
observatory on the grounds of the Vatican. We find no cowardly and
anti-logical fear of the spectacular findings of science in the holy
city-state. People criticize the Church for that very thing in its
suppression of Galileo in the seventeenth century.
But
the Catholic Church has recanted of its treatment of Galileo and,
unlike much of Protestant Christianity today, has embraced the
universe he proposed. As this article states, it was a Catholic
priest/scientist who first proposed the theory of the Big Bang.
Today, another catholic priest -- the just-retired Pope Benedict XVI
-- recently established an institution which seeks to resolve the
perceived conflicts between science and religion – the Vatican's
Science and Faith Foundation.
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