From Chris Bellitto's book 101 Questions & Answers on Popes and the Papacy.Question 35: Did a pope really condemn Galileo for saying the earth revolves around the sun?Excerpt from answer: Kind of. The issue was less about astronomy and science than authority. The pope in…
Friday's editorial calls on federal Judge Edward Lodge to resist whatever inclination he has to exclude the public from certain sensitive portions of confessed murderer Joseph Duncan's penalty hearings in Boise.
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