RECONCILING SCIENCE, RELIGION A PRESSING TOPIC FOR BUSY POPE.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: June 8, 1999 | Copyright information

Nearly four centuries after the Vatican condemned Nicholas Copernicus' discovery that the Earth revolved around the sun, another Pole - Pope John Paul II - visited the astronomer's birthplace yesterday and praised his scientific achievements.

But the pope noted that science and religion are still grappling to find common ground in the ``service of truth.''

John Paul took up one of the major themes of his papacy on a whirlwind day that saw him consecrate Poland's largest church and honor Polish martyrs, including victims of the Nazis and the country's former Communist ...

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