{"id":27511,"date":"2008-01-18T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/18\/the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:59:00","slug":"the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/18\/the-pope-is-a-dope-says-rome-u\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope is a Dope, says Rome U"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Pope Benedict XVI last night called off a visit to Rome&#8217;s main university in the face of hostility from some of its academics and students, who accused him of despising science and defending the Inquisition&#8217;s condemnation of Galileo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Pope is a Dope, says Rome U<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The controversy was unparalleled in a country where criticism of the Roman Catholic church is normally muted. The Pope had been due to speak tomorrow during ceremonies marking the start of the academic year at Rome&#8217;s largest and oldest university, La Sapienza. But the Vatican said last night it had been &#8220;considered opportune to postpone&#8221; his visit.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement followed a break-in and sit-in at the rector&#8217;s office yesterday by about 50 students and a furious row over a letter signed by more than 60 of La Sapienza&#8217;s teachers, asking that the invitation to the Pope be rescinded.<\/p>\n<p>The signatories of the letter said Benedict&#8217;s presence would be &#8220;incongruous&#8221;. They cited a speech he made at La Sapienza in 1990, while he was still a cardinal, in which he quoted the judgment of an Austrian philosopher of science who wrote that the church&#8217;s trial of Galileo was &#8220;reasonable and fair&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/pope\/story\/0,,2241339,00.html\">here,<\/a> at the Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI last night called off a visit to Rome&#8217;s main university in the face of hostility from some of its academics and students, who accused him of despising science and defending the Inquisition&#8217;s condemnation of Galileo. The Pope is a Dope, says Rome U<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-79J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}