Better late than never
The Wall Street Journal reports today: “The Roman Catholic Church has for centuries commissioned statues of saints and other pious heroes. It’s now wrestling with a more sensitive tribute — a monument to a man who may be its most illustrious heretic.
“Nearly 400 years after the Roman Inquisition condemned Galileo Galilei for insisting the Earth revolves around the sun, an anonymous donor to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences has offered to foot the bill for a statue of the Italian astronomer.”
The whole story.
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