Scientists protest against Pope

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Migueliones said:
What the hell? 😃

“Rabid anti-Catholicism”??? A slight over-reaction, perhaps?
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Perhaps I was overreacting, but I still hold that this comment is outrageous and anti-Catholic:

“Fifteen years ago Pope John Paul II officially conceded that in fact the Earth was not stationary.”

The implication of such a statement is clear and frankly I find it offensive. Such a prominent news service such as the BBC ought to be above such things. This just goes to show that the BBC has become at least in part a mouthpiece for the aging hippies that run universities such as La Sapienza and their deluded pupils.

I applaud Pope Benedict for canceling his visit. These puerile leftists do not deserve a visit from the Vicar of Christ. I only lament that, as the blog* Rorate Caeli *pointed out, the university founded by the Pope who wrote the Bull Unam Sanctam, Boniface VIII, has become a den of sexual deviants and secularists.
 
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Sixty one Italian scientists have signed a letter protesting against a planned visit this week by Pope Benedict XVI to Rome’s Sapienza University because of his stated views on Galileo.

In a letter to Renato Guarini, the university rector, the scientists said the visit was “incongruous”. The signatories include distinguished physicists such as Andrea Frova, author of a study of Galileo’s persecution by the Church, and Carlo Maiani, the recently appointed head of the Italian National Council for Research or CNR.

The letter said scientists felt “offended and humiliated” by a statement made in 1990 by the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - the modern descendant of the Inquisition - suggesting that the trial of Galileo for heresy because of his support for the Copernican system was justified in the context of the time.

timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3185593.ece
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Key words–in the context of the time

In Christ,
PF
 
mschrank said:
Kinda dissapointed in the Pope, he should of just gone there.
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Why? So that there could be violent protests in which the police might have to use force and one of the delinquents could get hurt and become a martyr for the leftists?

By not going, the Pope effectively showed that it is not the Church, but rather the secularists who are closed-minded and intolerant. In Italy the reactions are overwhelmingly in favor of Pope and against the actions of those childish protesters at La Sapienza. This is another case where Pope Benedict’s argument in favor of faith and reason rather than faith alone or reason alone has been proven correct. I bet you that eventually La Sapienza will be begging the Pope to come give a speech.
 
Cardinal Bertone gave a more detailed description behind why the pope cancelled his visit:

212.77.1.245/news_services/press/vis/dinamiche/d0_en.htm

The basic reasoning can be summarized with this quote from the article:
“As, unfortunately, the prerequisites for a dignified and tranquil welcome were not present, because of an initiative by a decidedly minority group of professors and students, it was judged opportune to postpone the scheduled visit in order to remove any pretext for demonstrations which would have been unfortunate for everyone concerned”.
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Here is a link to the text of the speech Pope Benedict would have given had he not cancelled his visit:

cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=56017

The opening line seems a bit ironic now:
It is a great joy for me to meet the community of “La Sapienza - Università di Roma”
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I guess he’s not technically meeting them anymore. At least, not just yet!
 
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