[Jack Hydrazine]

I was saying that tongue-in-cheek. It takes the Vatican a while to come around to new ideas like the Earth revolving around the Sun. That only took 359 years!

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-11-01/news/mn-1827_1_galileo-galilei

In today’s modern era maybe the concept of affirmative action is just now making its way into the Vatican./s

Just how long they stay with AA is anyone’s guess!/s

[Mrs. Don-o]

It bothers me when people refer to the Galileo episode without apparently bothering to research what actually happened.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2431080/posts?page=11#11

Not exactly canonization (for either Urban or Galileo!) but neither was it the melodramatic myth of "dogma" vs "science" purveyed by people who don't know jack chick about either.