First: an old Italian proverb. "You cannot reason with a German, but you can give orders." Second: only argue with a liberal when they are in the right. The more they are in the wrong, the more they become obstinate and intractable.
It certainly took the Catholic Church long enough to get around to declaring Galileo OK.
They did not think about making declarations all that much; they were too busy making use of his discoveries. Or did you not know that, until about 1750, the Church employed more astronomers than any other public or private body in the world?
As for reconciling my view about the ordination of women, why don't you go to the place where I stated my view, to which I posted a link several times? It is at the end of this chapter: http://www.geocities.com/vortigernstudies/fabio/book7.5.htm. The issue is roughly the same as Galileo's: church teaching is infallible in matters of faith and morals - not in matters of history.
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Date: 2005-05-18 08:46 pm (UTC)They did not think about making declarations all that much; they were too busy making use of his discoveries. Or did you not know that, until about 1750, the Church employed more astronomers than any other public or private body in the world?
As for reconciling my view about the ordination of women, why don't you go to the place where I stated my view, to which I posted a link several times? It is at the end of this chapter: http://www.geocities.com/vortigernstudies/fabio/book7.5.htm. The issue is roughly the same as Galileo's: church teaching is infallible in matters of faith and morals - not in matters of history.