Ministry today (25/8)
The Ministry notes that today Galileo Galilee’s telescope celebrates it’s 400:th birthday. Galileo Galilee was the inventor and was an Italian scientist. Galileo’s invention got him into trouble fast… The Catholic Church forced him to denounce his heathen believes (physics) when he claimed that we we’re living in a solar system where the sun was stationary and the earth was traveling in a big circle around it (the sun). He wasn’t really the first to say so, Copernicus said the same and others before him.
However, the Inquisition gave Galilee the opportunity to get away with life (instead of death) and he was sentenced to a life in house arrest - after he went back on his own scientific discoveries. To the defense of the Catholic Church we have to consider the fact that the Pope Johannes Paulus II actually pardoned Galileo (in the year 2000). A bit late perhaps… Still, the Catholic Church finally admitted that Galileo in fact - was right.
Other than that the Ministry notes a couple of birthdays: Sean Connery, Peter Gilmore, Gene Simmons, Tom Skerritt, Frederick Forsyth and Tim Burton.
