The Vatican has cancelled the proposed visit of Pope Benedict XVI on 17th to the most ancient University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’ (The Wisdom) owing to the protests of a section of professors and students of the University.

The refusal to welcome the pope rises from the fact that ‘the pope is against Scientific temper’. In a speech on 15th March, 1990 in the city of Parma, Cardinal Ratzinger had made these comments: ‘In the era of Galileo Galilee the Church was more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. The process carried out against Galileo was right and reasonable’.

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