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Statue of Galileo Planned for Vatican
Reservoir Hill writes "Four hundred years after it put Galileo on trial for heresy the Vatican is to complete its rehabilitation of the scientist by erecting a statue of him inside Vatican walls. The planned statue is to stand in the Vatican gardens near the apartment in which Galileo was incarcerated. He was held there while awaiting trial in 1633 for advocating heliocentrism, the Copernican doctrine that the Earth revolves around the Sun. The move coincides with a series of celebrations in the run-up to next year's 400th anniversary of Galileo's development of the telescope. In January Pope Benedict XVI called off a visit to Sapienza University, Rome, after staff and students accused him of defending the Inquisition's condemnation of Galileo. The Vatican said that the Pope had been misquoted and since the episode, several of the professors have retracted their protest."
Purely to put that other serious mistake about HIV firmly behind them...
if they really want to apologise for the some of the more unconscionable actions of the Catholic church, then let them put up a statue of Julius Fromm !
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Fromm)
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well... hopefully he's not *fully* erect... though i guess one can consider it an 'exciting' opportunity...
Well, that might not mean anything. What is the number of children in public schools in NYC compared to the number of children daily involved with priests? And do not forget another aspect that is very important: priests are able to pressure a kid with much more effectiveness than a teacher (something like: "if you tell anyone you will go to hell"). You could well be right (I could even say that you are probably right) but these simple numbers do not mean much without a definite and quantifiable context. That's the difficulty with statistics.
Wow. Her tax attorney conveniently "commits suicide" and her troubles with Whitewater go away. A high-level donor turns up on a train clutching some pills and babbling incoherently after his illegal tactics are outed by the press. Her hubby flies to Kazakhstan to set up a face-to-face between the Prez. and a Canadian investor who later receives exclusive rights to mine uranium. Said donor then donates millions to Clinton's charity (which I'm sure pays for his lavish speaking trips and other favors along these lines). No doubt Bill hit some nice Kazakhstani tail while he was half a world away from the old ball and chain.
All this, and she still wins Texas. Wow. She's as much as told us that by voting for her we get two presidents for the price of one. George Washington must be spinning in his grave! I guess she has the huge Mexican population to thank. No wonder she doesn't want to fix the border. I'm really disappointed in you, Ohio and Texas. It's a sad day for America, indeed.
It's informative. I have both dogs and chickens and have cleaned up the poop of both.
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