Vatican Statue of Galileo CANCELED???

**Galileo** · 12-23-2008

Vatican Statue of Galileo CANCELED???

Good heavens: Vatican rehabilitating Galileo

The Associated Press

Published: December 23, 2008

VATICAN CITY: Galileo Galilei is going from heretic to hero.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/...ng-Galileo.php

"But the Vatican's embrace of Galileo only goes so far.

There were plans earlier this year to give Galileo a permanent place of honor in the Vatican to mark the anniversary of his telescope: a statue, to be located inside the Vatican gardens, donated by the Italian aerospace giant Finmeccanica SpA.

The plans were suspended after some Vatican officials voiced "problems" with the initiative, said Nicola Cabibbo, the president of the Pontifical Council for Science. He declined to elaborate.

Finmeccanica spokesman Roberto Alatri said the Galileo statue was just an idea that never got off the ground.

Italian news reports suggested the Vatican simply didn't want to draw so much permanent attention to the Galileo episode, which 400 years on, still rankles some."

THIS CONTRADICTS PRIOR REPORTS

Galileo statue to be installed at the Vatican

Vatican City, Mar 6, 2008 / 07:10 am (CNA).

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=11992

"The Vatican plans to erect a statue of the 16th century scientist Galileo in the Vatican gardens, the Times reports.

The statue will stand near the apartment in which the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was incarcerated while awaiting trial in 1633. He was charged with advocating heliocentrism, the theory of Copernicus that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Though he was not tortured or executed, as some believe, he was forced to recant by the Roman Inquisition.

Nicola Cabibbo, a nuclear physicist who heads the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, explained the motive for the statue. “The Church wants to close the Galileo affair and reach a definitive understanding not only of his great legacy but also of the relationship between science and faith,” he said.

Professor Cabibbo said that the statue was appropriate because Galileo had been one of the founders of the Lincei Academy, a forerunner of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, in 1603.

The statue installation, which is being privately funded, precedes a series of celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s invention of the telescope. Events include a Vatican conference on Galileo to be attended by 40 international scientists and a re-examination of the Galileo trial at a Florence ins ute run by the Society of Jesus, some of whose members were on the tribunal that declared Galileo suspect of heresy."

IF THIS NEW REPORT IS TRUE, WE NEED TO PROTEST

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!

TAKE TO THE STREETS!!

WAKE UP!!!