Wasn't is about 1970? I need a reference to the papal decree or other official church announcement.
2007-07-09 02:22:38 · 12 answers · asked by Luinrandir 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Pope Benedict XIV granted an imprimatur (an official approval) to the first edition of the Complete Works of Galileo in 1741.
“[Galileo] declared explicitly that the two truths, of faith and of science, can never contradict each other, 'Sacred Scripture and the natural world proceeding equally from the divine Word, the first as dictated by the Holy Spirit, the second as a very faithful executor of the commands of God', as he wrote in his letter to Father Benedetto Castelli on 21 December 1613. The Second Vatican Council says the same thing, even adopting similar language in its teaching: 'Methodical research, in all realms of knowledge, if it respects... moral norms, will never be genuinely opposed to faith: the reality of the world and of faith have their origin in the same God' (Gaudium et Spes, 36). Galileo sensed in his scientific research the presence of the Creator who, stirring in the depths of his spirit, stimulated him, anticipating and assisting his intuitions”
-- John Paul II, Address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (10 November 1979): Insegnamenti, II, 2 (1979), 1111-1112. From the Vatican website: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_15101998_fides-et-ratio_en.html
With love in Christ.
2007-07-09 17:07:28 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was no papal decree, since this is not a matter of faith or morals. The Church accepted these ideas the same time the rest of the world did - when science conclusively demonstrated them to be correct.
2007-07-09 09:48:17 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
>>I need a reference to the papal decree or other official church announcement.<<
No such thing. The Church teaches faith and morals, not science.
2007-07-09 09:38:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
As I have said in another answer, the Catholic Church does not make scientific announcements.
2007-07-09 09:33:51 · answer #4 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Vatican has an observatory, one of the oldest in the world in terms of when it was established (1891), and has supported astronomy since the late 1500s.
See "debunking the flat earth theory" from MercatorNet:
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/debunking_the_flat_earth_theory/
Vatican Observatory research group at Mt. Graham in Arizona:
http://clavius.as.arizona.edu/vo/R1024/VATT.html
Article on the Vatican observatory at Space.com:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/vatican_observe_000716.html
2007-07-09 09:48:41 · answer #5 · answered by Clare † 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't know, but it was 1992 when they conceded that the Earth went round the Sun.
2007-07-09 09:28:12 · answer #6 · answered by Citizen Justin 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some of them still haven't. Conceded that is.
2007-07-09 11:49:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Galileo was officially "forgiven" in 1981.
2007-07-09 09:27:02 · answer #8 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Last Tuesday I believe
2007-07-09 09:26:26 · answer #9 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't think they believe it yet, like the Mormons, Fundamentalists and Jehovah's Witnesses.
2007-07-09 09:27:19 · answer #10 · answered by americanhero_aa 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋