Well, it's been a hell of a ride, laying rubber all over the road for the past decade. But it's time to call it a day and park the Rogue in the garage. Effective today, I am shutting down my blog to focus my attention on other endeavours. My thanks to the more than 2.7 million people who regularly joined me on these sojourns through news stories over the years that dealt with the places with issues of religion and faith intersecting with public affairs. May God bless you with a continuing desire to learn about and help disseminate the issues of faith throughout the public square. Happy trails in your continuing travels! Fr. Tim Moyle, p.p. Diocese of Pembroke
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
It would be nice if the reviewer saw the episode before they critiqued it. I haven't seen it (no cable) but will when it eventually comes out on itunes or something. I'm old enough to have seen the original when it was on PBS and I loved it.
ReplyDeleteRationalist: I watched the first episode last night. The reviewer is correct in as much as it concerns Church history (eg: Galileo was never shackled in irons in prison as was depicted in cartoon for proposing a heliocentric model of the universe) but imho, the positives in the program greatly outweighed the negative effect of such errors.
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Ooops! Not Galileo but Bruno. He was not condemned by the Church but by his scientific peers. Challenging orthodoxy was dangerous both in religious and science... at least in the 16th century. It is wrong to lay the blame for retarding scientific advancement solely at the feet of Church which is what happens in the program.
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I see it's on Youtube. I'll watch it later this week (when we finally get a TV). I thought Bruno was brought before the inquisition and tried for theological unorthodox both in theological matters and his speculations about other worlds.
ReplyDeleteI think the Catholic Church gets unfair blame for Galileo as they initially found no problems with his teaching but Protestants used it against the Catholics that they were departing from Scripture and the Church in an attempt to refute these claims clamped down. If Galileo had have been born in Norther Germany or England, he would have suffered the same fate in Protestant countries, perhaps worse./