Good heavens: Vatican rehabilitating Galileo

[Argante]

Here is a very interesting article about the Vatican rehabilitating Galileo's image from a heretic, to a man of faith and reason.

At a Vatican conference last month entitled "Science 400 Years after Galileo Galilei," the Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, said Galileo was an astronomer, but one who "lovingly cultivated his faith and his profound religious conviction."

"Galileo Galilei was a man of faith who saw nature as a book authored by God," Bertone said.

Good heavens: Vatican rehabilitating Galileo
By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer

It's nice to see a wrong righted by the Vatican.

Bright Blessings...
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[alyscat]

Well, the alternative is to appear as an organization totally out of touch with reailty. Galileo was fortunate - he was politically astute enough to remain alive, unlike Bruno, who espoused much of the same theories and was burned at the stake in 1600
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno

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