It’s easy to take a digital, binary view of the 17th century Church vs. Galileo conflict: Galileo right, Pope Urban VIII wrong. But the issue is more nuanced, and Galileo’s interaction with church ...

Galileo Galilei was the most brilliant astronomer of his time, armed with a telescope and an obsession with truth. In the ...

Isaac Newton refined a model of the universe where the sun was at its center and the planets, including Earth, revolved around it. Newton defined some of the primary and fundamental basis of what we ...

Few lies so excite secular souls as the Galileo Incident. But the historical reality of the situation is so completely different than the popular version of the story as to make one think we were ...

I wish to correct a misunderstanding in Kathleen Parker’s column, Feb. 8. Galileo did not get in trouble with the Catholic Church for proposing that the Earth revolved around the sun. Copernicus had ...

Extracts taken from A Turning Point for Europe? The Church and Modernity in the Europe of Upheavals, Paoline Editions, 1992, pp. 76-79. English translation by NCR. In the last decade, creation’s ...

Galileo Galilei is going from heretic to hero. The Vatican is recasting the most famous victim of its Inquisition as a man of faith, just in time for the 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope and ...

Did Galileo Galilei really say all those terrible things that the Vatican said he did in his famous 1613 letter about a sun-centered solar system — and in saying so, violate church doctrine? Or did ...

The International Astronomy Union and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have designated this year as the International Year of Astronomy 2009 in tribute to ...