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Are we committed to beauty and truth in art? Thinking about Dan Brown’s Universities are In short, the idea that there is a some natural tension between science and the Church, between reason and faith, is utter nonsense. Nowadays, when people hear the words “science” and “the Church,” they immediately think of Galileo’s trial in the 1600s. But, in the larger scheme of things, that complex case –which is frequently distorted by anti-Catholic propagandists–was a glaring exception. There’s a reason why critics of the Church are always brings it up: It’s the only example they’ve got. So, when we hear the words “science” and “the Church,” we should think Copernicus, Secchi, Mendel and Lemaitre. They’re representative. Galileo’s trial is not.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are we committed to beauty and truth in art? Thinking about Dan Brown’s books which contains Catholic “material” I have been a bit distressed at some peoples’ an uncritical acceptance of what I think is mostly scandalous regarding the Catholic faith. To me it is not OK because Brown is, as it’s said belowi, cashing … Continue reading Cashing-in the work of the Church<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1749],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDan Brown’s books which contains Catholic “material” I have been a bit
\ndistressed at some peoples’ an uncritical acceptance of what I think is mostly
\nscandalous regarding the Catholic faith. To me it is not OK because Brown is,
\nas it’s said belowi, cashing in on the work of the Church. But my gripe is that
\nfiction is always received as such by some people aren’t able to clearly
\ndiscern the meaning of things. That is, there are people who can’t separate
\nfact from fiction in printed materials; for them anything in print is true.
\nRight, it’s ludicrous but people do think that what Dan Brown writes is true
\nand beyond reproach. Father John Wauck, an Opus Dei priest, is a professor at
\nthe Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, and the author of the blog
\n“The Da Vinci Code and Opus Dei” said the following recently in an
\ninterview the rest of the interview was published on Zenit.org.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\ntrying to sell books by offering a “cocktail” of history, art,
\nreligion and mystery, and, in today’s world, there seems to be only one place
\nwhere he’s able to find all those things together: in the Roman Catholic
\nChurch. In fact, he’s cashing in on the culture of the Church.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nan invention of the Church. Copernicus was a Roman Catholic cleric, and he
\ndedicated his book on the heliocentric universe to the Pope. The calendar we
\nuse today is the Gregorian Calendar, because it was promulgated by Pope Gregory
\nXIII, who was working with the best astronomers and mathematicians of his time.
\nGalileo himself always remained a Catholic, and his two daughters were nuns.
\nOne of the greatest Italian astronomers of the 19th century was a Jesuit
\npriest, Angelo Secchi. The father of modern genetics, Gregor Mendel, was a
\nCatholic monk. The creator of the “Big Bang” theory was a Belgian
\npriest, Georges Lemaitre.<\/span><\/p>\n