Vatican celebrates big bang to dispel faith-science conflict
"VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is celebrating the big-bang theory. That’s not as out of this world as it sounds.
The Vatican Observatory has invited leading scientists and cosmologists to talk black holes, gravitational waves and space-time singularities as it honors the late Jesuit cosmologist considered one of the fathers of the idea that the universe began with a gigantic explosion.
The Tuesday-Friday conference honoring Monsignor George Lemaitre is being held at the Vatican Observatory, founded by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 to help correct the notion that the Roman Catholic Church was hostile to science. The perception has persisted in some circles since Galileo’s heresy trial 400 years ago, even though the observatory and Catholic universities around the globe have produced top-notch science over the centuries" - Source
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I have to admit, I have a soft spot for Catholics. After 12 yo, I've been surrounded by them all my life. I graduated from the same Catholic university my oldest daughter will be graduating from this month. My two youngest attend Catholic high schools.
I send them there, not because they are Catholic (they all can opt out on religion classes) but because their curriculum is not tainted with certain christian voodooism when it comes to science.
I'm pragmatic that way.
I went to a Jesuit high school. I don't think they really cared that I was an atheist. They just cared about whether my tuition was paid.