7.02.2009
Vatican About Face
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Galileo was treated "incorrectly" by the Catholic church, according to a church prelate in Rome, when he was subject to inquiry over his findings. Echoing a theme carried in 'Angels and Demons,' the Vatican now says that the forward momentum of scientific findings should not be parried by dogma and tradition.
In particular, Galileo's conclusion that there appeared to be planetary objects moving externally and independently to the known cosmological system ( e.g., satellites of Jupiter) and that the solar system was heliocentric, rather than geocentric - were threatening the conception of a divinely ordered universe, as it existed at the time.
"Can this teach us something today? I certainly think so," said Monsignor Pagano, head of the Vatican's secret archives.
Read more in the news wire story.
Labels: galileo, monsignor, pagano
