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'n Baie interessante apologie vir die rol van die kerk van Rome by:
http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Issues/GalileoAffair .html
Die volgende aanhaling demonsteer dat Rome nie nou skielik besluit het om te
Galileo te "rehabiliteer" nie. Dit lyk asof daar weer goed propagandasous
deurgeloop het om die wanopvattings van nuusmanne te voed:
The Galileo Affair
No episode in the history of the Catholic Church is so misunderstood as the
condemnation of Galileo. It is, in Newman's phrase, the one stock argument
used to show that science and Catholic dogma are antagonistic. To the
popular mind, the Galileo affair is prima facie evidence that the free
pursuit of truth became possible only after science "liberated" itself from
the theological shackles of the Middle Ages. The case makes for such a neat
morality play of enlightened science versus dogmatic obscuratism that
historians are seldom tempted to correct the anti-Catholic "spin" that is
usually put on it. Even many intelligent Catholics would prefer that the
whole sorry affair be swept under a rug.
John Paul II and Galileo
This is not, however, the attitude of Pope John Paul II. In 1979, he
expressed the wish that the Pontifical Academy of Sciences conduct an
in-depth study of the celebrated case. A commission of scholars was
convened, and they presented their report to the Pope on October 31, 1992.
Contrary to reports in The New York Times and other conduits of
misinformation about the Church, the Holy See was not on this occasion
finally throwing in the towel and admitting that the earth revolves around
the sun. That particular debate, so far as the Church was concerned, had
been closed since at least 1741 when Benedict XIV bid the Holy Office grant
an imprimatur to the first edition of the Complete Works of Galileo.
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