Yet, far from acting in courageous defiance, many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to ...

Introduction No human civilization—whether large or small, modern or traditional—has ever survived without collectively ...

The couples write their queries on a piece of paper, and the anonymity guarantees at least a few hardball questions about the Church and its practices. "What about Galileo?" is among my favorites ...

Like many women artists of earlier centuries whose work has survived, Artemisia came from a family of artists. Born in Rome in 1593, she was the oldest and most artistically inclined child of the ...

While every city has plenty of places tourists want to visit, Rick Steves says this relatively normal sight in America is ...

In the seventeenth century, Galileo’s theory of astronomy was pitted against the Catholic Church’s theology. The Church’s religious belief was that the sun rotated around the earth. This was based ...

Nearby is the 318-foot Campanile di San Marco bell tower, which was once frequented by Galileo to study the stars ... in Italy can be complete without a church. In Dorsoduro, visit the octagonal ...

The climate change movement has managed to closely associate themselves with the left of the political spectrum, producing a ...

Seeing the Leaning Tower, Pisa Cathedral, the Baptistery and Camposanto are some of the popular things to do in Pisa but ...

The church has a museum called “Cardenal Jorge Mario Bergoglio ... Or you can pass by in the evenings to see it spectacularly lit up. Planetario Galileo Galilei is very popular with local families and ...