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Article: Trampling holy ground to reach for stars. (Vatican Observatory controversy) (Editorial)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- October 8, 1993
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Cardinal Rosalio Lara, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Government of the Vatican City-State, was supposed to attend the dedication of the new Vatican Observatory telescope atop Mount Graham in southeastern Arizona last month. But the Apache Survival Coalition had threatened to disrupt the ceremony, so Lara sent his speech to Arizona and stayed in Rome.
Lara's text characterized the telescope as "a real symbol of the church's dialogue with the world with its diversity of concerns." We have no quarrel with that. It is healthy for the Vatican to be involved in science. That involvement may have had something to do with Rome's renewed sense of ...