Profs want papal visit cancelled

[nhboy]

"(ANSA) - Rome, January 14 - A planned visit by Pope Benedict to Rome's most prestigious university has sparked protests from scientists there who are offended by his position on Galileo.

In a letter to the university's rector, 67 lecturers and professors said it would be ''incongruous'' for the pontiff to open the academic year at the La Sapienza university on January 17 and called for his visit to be cancelled.

The letter highlighted Benedict's remark, when he was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, that the Catholic Church's 17th century trial of great Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was ''reasonable and just''."

ANSA.it - News in English - Profs want papal visit cancelled

 

[tommyjones]

"(ANSA) - Rome, January 14 - A planned visit by Pope Benedict to Rome's most prestigious university has sparked protests from scientists there who are offended by his position on Galileo.

In a letter to the university's rector, 67 lecturers and professors said it would be ''incongruous'' for the pontiff to open the academic year at the La Sapienza university on January 17 and called for his visit to be cancelled.

The letter highlighted Benedict's remark, when he was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, that the Catholic Church's 17th century trial of great Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was ''reasonable and just''."

ANSA.it - News in English - Profs want papal visit cancelled

:meh:

its not like he's a Nazi