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Protests force Pope to cancel university visit |
source: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/01/16/1200419886021.html
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday abruptly called off plans to speak at
Rome's prestigious La Sapienza University, after students and
professors rallied to proclaim him pontiff non grata.
More than 60 professors signed a letter to the college's rector saying
the Pope's appearance, which had been scheduled for the opening of the
academic year today, was an affront to people of science and to the
secular nature of the institution.
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| User: "LC" |
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17 Jan 2008 01:10:26 PM |
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<simple_language@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:760edb69-fdbe-41eb-a2e5-c221835e7741@q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
source: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/01/16/1200419886021.html
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday abruptly called off plans to speak at
Rome's prestigious La Sapienza University, after students and
professors rallied to proclaim him pontiff non grata.
More than 60 professors signed a letter to the college's rector saying
the Pope's appearance, which had been scheduled for the opening of the
academic year today, was an affront to people of science and to the
secular nature of the institution.
Why invite the old Nazi Luddite Benny the Rat to a conference that deals
with scientific enquiry? After all, this is the sub-genius that wrote this:
"At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more faithful to reason
than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just".
~ Joseph Ratzinger, Corriere della Sera, March 30, 1990; 30 Dias, January
1993
More here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7188860.stm
Scholars protest at papal visit
"Lecturers and students at a prestigious university in Rome want a planned
visit by the Pope to be cancelled as they object to his position on Galileo.
Pope Benedict XVI is to make a speech on Thursday at La Sapienza university.
Sixty-seven academics have signed a letter saying the Pope's views on
Galileo "offend and humiliate us".
They say he condoned the 1633 trial and conviction of Galileo for heresy.
The astronomer had argued that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
The academics said it would be inappropriate for the Pope to open their
academic year on Thursday.
"In the name of the secular nature of science we hope this incongruous event
can be cancelled," said the letter addressed to the university's rector,
Renato Guarini.
In a separate initiative students at La Sapienza have organised four days of
protest this week. The first revolved around an anti-clerical meal of bread,
pork and wine, the BBC's Christian Fraser reports from Rome.
The banner at their lunch read: "Knowledge needs neither fathers nor
priests".
The official programme has been changed so that Pope Benedict will give a
normal speech - as opposed to a keynote speech, which is usually the
centrepiece of the ceremony.
Vatican Radio said the protest at La Sapienza had "a censorious tone".
Pope Benedict was in charge of Roman Catholic doctrine in 1990 when, as
Cardinal Ratzinger, he commented on the 17th-Century Galileo trial. He has
been quoted as saying the trial was "reasonable and just".
Galileo's inquisitors maintained the scriptures indicated the Earth was
stationary.
Galileo, a devout Catholic, was forced to renounce his findings publicly.
Fifteen years ago Pope John Paul II officially conceded that in fact the
Earth was not stationary."
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| User: "Christopher A.Lee" |
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17 Jan 2008 06:03:51 AM |
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:58:15 -0800 (PST), "simple_language@yahoo.com"
<simple_language@yahoo.com> wrote:
source: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/01/16/1200419886021.html
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday abruptly called off plans to speak at
Rome's prestigious La Sapienza University, after students and
professors rallied to proclaim him pontiff non grata.
More than 60 professors signed a letter to the college's rector saying
the Pope's appearance, which had been scheduled for the opening of the
academic year today, was an affront to people of science and to the
secular nature of the institution.
Good.
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| User: "thomas p." |
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| Title: Re: Protests force Pope to cancel university visit |
17 Jan 2008 08:58:47 AM |
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"Christopher A.Lee" <calee@optonline.net> skrev i en meddelelse
news:s0huo3dtci9ubd0ijlbf8hk36me6nk47rq@4ax.com...
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:58:15 -0800 (PST), "simple_language@yahoo.com"
<simple_language@yahoo.com> wrote:
source: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/01/16/1200419886021.html
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday abruptly called off plans to speak at
Rome's prestigious La Sapienza University, after students and
professors rallied to proclaim him pontiff non grata.
More than 60 professors signed a letter to the college's rector saying
the Pope's appearance, which had been scheduled for the opening of the
academic year today, was an affront to people of science and to the
secular nature of the institution.
Good.
Hopeful sign.
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: Protests force Pope to cancel university visit |
18 Jan 2008 04:45:54 PM |
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:58:15 -0800 (PST), "simple_language@yahoo.com"
<simple_language@yahoo.com> wrote:
source: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/01/16/1200419886021.html
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday abruptly called off plans to speak at
Rome's prestigious La Sapienza University, after students and
professors rallied to proclaim him pontiff non grata.
More than 60 professors signed a letter to the college's rector saying
the Pope's appearance, which had been scheduled for the opening of the
academic year today, was an affront to people of science and to the
secular nature of the institution.
Hoo-bloody-ray!!
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