Professors criticize New York Times claim that Holy See burned astronomers
October 06, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: The New York Times has asserted on Facebook and Twitter that “the Holy See muzzled and burned Catholic stargazers for questioning the centrality of the Earth in the cosmos.”
Professors at UCLA and the Catholic University of America criticized the newspaper’s assertion, as did a Princeton University doctoral candidate, who said that “the Catholic Church has never ‘burned’ any astronomers, nor was it broadly antagonistic toward the development of science. To the contrary, the Church provided much of the financial support for the study of astronomy in medieval and early modern Europe.”
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