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The Vatican observatory looks to the heavens

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/04/the-vatican-observatory-looks-to-the-heavens
38•pseudolus•7h ago

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pseudolus•7h ago
https://archive.ph/i6KDU
pseudolus•4h ago
Surprisingly, not a single mention of Georges Lemaître - the Catholic priest who made significant contributions to cosmology and is credited with originating what became the Big Bang theory.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre

chiba12•4h ago
It’s literally mentioned in the article
pseudolus•4h ago
Alas, I missed that part: 'Pius XII stopped suggesting that the big bang required the orchestration of God after he had a conference with Georges Lemaître, the Belgian scientist and Catholic priest who had laid the groundwork for the theory with his hypothesis that the universe had expanded from a “primeval atom.”'
myvoiceismypass•3h ago
So you didn’t read the article you are commenting on? I’m having a hard time understanding how this was missed.
Jtsummers•4h ago
> Surprisingly, not a single mention of Georges Lemaître

The article:

>> Pius XII stopped suggesting that the big bang required the orchestration of God after he had a conference with Georges Lemaître, the Belgian scientist and Catholic priest who had laid the groundwork for the theory with his hypothesis that the universe had expanded from a “primeval atom.”

There's a single mention of him in the article.

antithesizer•22m ago
This is what I call self-sacrifice.
melling•40m ago
“when the realignment caused ten days to be subtracted from the year, mobs across Europe attacked Jesuit houses to protest the time stolen from them.”

Do we see these people among us today?

This resonated too:

“ He said, “Even scientists who don’t believe in God have to believe in ‘Oh, my God.”

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