Inquisition Pope? No thanks
Pope Benedict (the-Pope-formerly-known-as-Ratzinger) has been invited to the opening of the new academic year at La Sapienza University in Rome. Many professors protested in writing against him being invited, and lot of students are protesting as well. You may think that the Pope is just not popular in that university, but I’d say there is more.
I guess you’ve probably heard about Galileo Galilei, the great scientist known as the Father of Scientific Method. Another smart guy named Albert Einstein (I’m sure you heard about him, at least! 
) even called him the Father of Modern Science.
Galileo had to stand trial on suspicion of heresy in 1633, and lived under house arrest until he died in 1642. His fault was to assert that the Earth was moving around the Sun, and not the other way around as the Catholic Church said.
That was Inquisition time.
Well, maybe it still is.
In 1990 the-Pope-formerly-known-as-Ratzinger said “In Galileo’s time, the Church sided much more with reason than he did. The trial was reasonable and fair”.
I beg your pardon ?!?!
Is it that surprising that professors and students don’t want him around ?
on February 6th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I wonder if one reader really knows what thgey were talking about? If anyone, especially he/she who put ‘I beg your pardon ?!?!’ wants the truth of the ‘reasonable and fair argument I will submit it.
on February 7th, 2008 at 9:00 am
on March 10th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
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