Vatican Astronomy conference

[themos]

BBC News: "Papal stargazers reach for heaven"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7021358.stm

[The Warthog]

This is truly inspiring to a non-fundamentalist Christian. 'nuff said.

[beamish]

Nice find and an interesting read, thanks there Themos,

Karlo

[saturn5]

Mmmmmm,the Vatican doesn't have the best track record in astronomy,no doubt they will have forgiven themselves for their abhorrent treatment of Galileo. :nono:

[beamish]

S5 you forget- Papal Infallibility !! Ergo nothing to forgive ! Perhaps they're hoping to get the jump on the nxt big idea re Creation :D

I'm not going to say another word or post

[Astroman]

The Vatican Observatory is located here in AZ, atop Mount Graham, where the Large Binocular Telescope is almost complete. Brother Guy Consolmagno gave a talk at SAC last year sometime, but I'm afraid I missed it. (Boycotted, really, on Galileo's behalf.) So, now I won't say another word.

[Keith2]

People always seem to forget that it was a Catholic priest, Georges Lemaître, who came up with the Big Bang Theory!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre

Keith

[Cloudwatcher]

Thanks for that Kieth, very interesting. A bit more advanced thinking than Genesis Ch.1 Vs 16 & 17

CW

[GazOC]

Mmmmmm,the Vatican doesn't have the best track record in astronomy,no doubt they will have forgiven themselves for their abhorrent treatment of Galileo. :nono:

They didn't 'pardon' him until 1992...

[Cloudwatcher]

Mmmmmm,the Vatican doesn't have the best track record in astronomy,no doubt they will have forgiven themselves for their abhorrent treatment of Galileo. :nono:

They didn't 'pardon' him until 1992...

Should have been in 1692 but the papers got misfiled! What is known in Vatican circles as "a right Papal Bull sup".

CW

[gort]

I visited Brother Guy at Castel Gondolfo in November, 2000 (actually bought him lunch). He gave me a tour of the "grounds" (normally, off-limits, and no cameras allowed), where several very nice domes and old telescopes are located. The old scopes were in terrible shape - dusty, leaky domes, and full of mouse droppings. Apparently, all research is done in Arizona, in spite of some great instruments (40 cm Zeiss, dual Schmidt cameras, etc.). I nearly wept!

James

[The Warthog]

Mmmmmm,the Vatican doesn't have the best track record in astronomy,no doubt they will have forgiven themselves for their abhorrent treatment of Galileo. :nono:

They didn't 'pardon' him until 1992...

Should have been in 1692 but the papers got misfiled! What is known in Vatican circles as "a right Papal Bull sup".

CW

What's three centuries in the life of the Church Eternal?

[Astroman]

People always seem to forget that it was a Catholic priest, Georges Lemaître, who came up with the Big Bang Theory!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre

Keith

That's ok, they may forgive him...in 2227!