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Facing mounting protests, Pope Benedict XVI on January 15 canceled a long-planned talk at Rome's La Sapienza University
Christian Century, Feb 12, 2008
Facing mounting protests, Pope Benedict XVI on January 15 canceled a long-planned talk at Rome's La Sapienza University. "Following the widely noted vicissitudes of recent days ... it was considered opportune to postpone the event," the Vatican said in a statement quoted by the Italian news agency ANSA.
It was a rare cancellation in not being attributed to an illness. The statement added that the pope would still send the text of the speech he had planned to deliver in person January 17 at the start of the academic year at La Sapienza, Europe's largest university. Over the prior weekend, more than 60 La Sapienza faculty members wrote to the university's rector objecting to the pope's presence, citing words from a 1990 lecture in which he seemed to justify the Vatican's condemnation of the astronomer Galileo Galilei in the 17th century. "In the name of the secularity of science, we hope that this incongruous event can still be canceled," the professors wrote.
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