'Angels & Demons' Gets the Science vs. Church Battle Backward, says Chicago Priest...

[Michie]

...and Film-Maker Fr. Robert Barron

MEDIA ADVISORY, May 16 /Christian Newswire/ --

Great Founders of Science were Devoutly Religious: Copernicus, Mendel, Newton, Kepler, Pascal

The Catholic Church Holds that Because All Truth Comes from God, there is no Conflict Between Scientific Reason and Religion

Who: Father Robert Barron, Francis Cardinal George Chair of Faith and Culture at University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois, is available for interviews on the new film, "Angels & Demons." Father Barron also is making a $2.5 million, 10-part, hi-def documentary on Catholicism. Father Barron is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministry, a website that draws over 300,000 unique visitors each year from every continent.

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[Gwendolyn]

I saw the movie today. It said that Galileo got in trouble for putting forth the idea of a heliocentric universe. That's silly... Copernicus put it forth and the Church was like "Hey, that's cool."

Galileo got in trouble for something else.

Anyway, JPII wrote some nice things concerning religion and science as well.

 

[Toclafane]

I saw the movie today. It said that Galileo got in trouble for putting forth the idea of a heliocentric universe. That's silly... Copernicus put it forth and the Church was like "Hey, that's cool."

Galileo got in trouble for something else.

Anyway, JPII wrote some nice things concerning religion and science as well.

Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Galileo's championing of Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime, when a large majority of philosophers and astronomers still subscribed to the geocentric view that the Earth remained motionless at the centre of the universe. After 1610, when he began supporting heliocentrism publicly, he met with bitter opposition from some philosophers and clerics, and two of the latter eventually denounced him to the Roman Inquisition early in 1615. Although he was cleared of any offence at that time, the Catholic Church nevertheless condemned heliocentrism as "false and contrary to Scripture" in February 1616,[8] and Galileo was warned to abandon his support for it—which he promised to do. When he later defended his views in his most famous work, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in 1632, he was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", forced to recant, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_Chief_World_Systems

 

[SpiritualAntiseptic]

The truth of the whole situation- from 1500ad to today is far more fascinating and incredible than anything that Dan Brown could vomit up.

Imagine a world in which science was outlawed - and people were taught scientific terms, but were forced to ignore the basic purpose of science. That is, imagine a world in which science was banned, ideology was called science and people were unable to explore the mysteries of the world.

This didn't happen right? It didn't... but it did happen with philosophy. Which is why philosophy is so ridiculed and unappreciated today. Oh, we all have learned a philosophy... but we haven't been taught to know that.

We live in a post-philosophical world. We have taught our children to adopt a certain kind of philosophy, offering no other alternatives and denying them the ultimate quest for truth that philosophy offers.

This is why the issue of Galileo is completely misunderstood and warped.
The Church never had an issue with science. The Catholic Church had an issue with the sophist/mechanical/materialist philosophy that became the basis for modern science.

Galileo was a sophist. He believed that the universe had no purpose and that God and all of nature was reducable to mathematical terms. The Catholic Church didn't care that the Earth was not at the center of the universe. Galileo was a heretic because of his philosophy and theology.

 

[BAFRIEND]

'Angels & Demons' Gets the Science vs. Church Battle Backward, says Chicago Priest...

And in Pocahontis there was a talking squirrel.

 

[MarkRohfrietsch]

And in Pocahontis there was a talking squirrel.

... and in Startrek, Scottie beams em up!

Science aside... my wife and I saw the movie last night, and I would have to say that it showed the Catholic Church in a very positive light, and good did triumph over evil. We enjoyed it.

 

[isabella1]

I was thinking about watching it last night, but didn't. I want to read Father Barron's written commentary on it. Guess I will have to go on the Word on Fire website, to do so.