VATICAN CITY (AP) - E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church.
"The questions of life's origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration," said the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, an astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory.
Funes, a Jesuit priest, presented the results Tuesday of a five-day conference that gathered astronomers, physicists, biologists and other experts to discuss the budding field of astrobiology — the study of the origin of life and its existence elsewhere in the cosmos.
Funes said the possibility of alien life raises "many philosophical and theological implications" but added that the gathering was mainly focused on the scientific perspective and how different disciplines can be used to explore the issue. Read more - AP - Nov 10, 2009 – CBS News
http://cbs2chicago.com/watercooler/vatican.ET.life.2.1304672.html
Science bows to theology
as the
Pope dismantles Vatican observatory
By Peter Popham – Janaury 4, 2008 – The Independent
Science is to make way for diplomacy at the Pope's summer residence, with the dismantling of the astronomical observatory that has been part of Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, for more than 75 years. The Pope needs more room to receive diplomats so the telescopes have to go.
The eviction of the astronomers and their instruments, reported by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, and their removal to a disused convent a mile away, marks the end of a period of intimacy between popes and priest-astronomers that has lasted well over a century…
But symbolism is exactly what close watchers of Pope Benedict XVI see in the move: confirmation of the view that he is far less receptive to what scientists including scientists in dog collars want to tell him than his recent predecessors. He has, for example, spoken in favour of intelligent design, in flat contradiction of the views of the observatory's former director. Read more - By Peter Popham – Janaury 4, 2008 – The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/science-bows-to-theology-as-the-pope-dismantles-vatican-observatory-768080.html
Good heavens: Vatican rehabilitating Galileo
By Nicole Winfield
AP – Dec. 23, 2008 - msnbc.com
Church recasting the most famous victim of its Inquisition as a man of faith
VATICAN CITY - Galileo Galilei is going from heretic to hero.
The Vatican is recasting the most famous victim of its Inquisition as a man of faith, just in time for the 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope and the U.N.-designated International Year of Astronomy next year…
…In May, several Vatican officials will participate in an international conference to re-examine the Galileo affair, and top Vatican officials are now saying Galileo should be named the "patron" of the dialogue between faith and reason.
It's quite a reversal of fortune for Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), who made the first complete astronomical telescope and used it to gather evidence that the Earth revolved around the sun. Church teaching at the time placed the Earth at the center of the universe.
The church denounced Galileo's theory as dangerous to the faith, but Galileo defied its warnings. Tried as a heretic in 1633 and forced to recant, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, later changed to house arrest. Read complete article - By Nicole Winfield – AP – Dec. 23, 2008 - msnbc.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28371902/
Related links:
Groupthink
by Irving L. Janis
Published in Psychology Today, Nov. 1971
Stanford University
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/06/groupthink-by-irving-l-janis-published.html
Vatican’s X Files?By Fr. Marty Kurylowicz – June 4, 2010
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/06/vaticans-x-files-by-fr-marty-kurylowicz_2422.html
Benedict XVI Promotes Discrimination Laws Against Gays
&
Welcomes Anglicans Who Agree
&
Visit To Britain Scale Back Events
http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/06/benedict-xvi-promotes-discrimination_03.html
Full Disclosure - The Roman Catholic Church must confront its failings with contrition
TimesOnline – Read more
Ignorance about human sexuality is harmful to children.“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.” Erik Erikson
…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6
Protect children and the entire world will be safe.
Important note: No disrespect meant to Pope Benedict XVI or the hierarchy, the one and only concern is the safety and well-being of children.
Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
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