"What about Galileo?" is among my favorites ... Well, then: Why can't priests marry?" It is a question that comes up among even devout Catholics at coffee hour after Mass and at cocktail parties.

Like the other ceremonies and traditions that accompany the advent of a new pope, his newly chosen name will be imbued with ...

Both president and pope represent two antipodal possibilities of leadership in the same society and the promise of redemption once a society gets it right. Consequently, no human society, nation or ...

He identifies the name Urban as an unlikely candidate for the new pope because it would “harken back to Urban VIII, who started the trial of Galileo ... by two priests, and will deliver the ...

If they’d said the same thing all the way through, they’d be priests, not scientists ... And that goes back to Galileo, you know, 500 years ago. Galileo challenged the church.

The Bunker’s powers of slowing time and magnifying space, previously reserved for gods and priests, enable it to ... and imprisoned Galileo. The idea is to merge the operations of the Bunker ...