Also at stake was the Church’s teaching authority and people’s faith in what the Bible said. If Galileo was right, then the Church and the Bible could be wrong, and you should believe what science can prove, not what faith teaches.

The April issue of U.S. Catholic, printed before the passage of the New York State budget, reports:

Our collective inability as a nation and as consumers to balance our budgets is not just a political but a moral failure. In fact, reining in U.S. debt could be the most challenging social and moral problem of our times. Though terrorism and Mother Nature remain potent and uncertain dangers, it is America’s fiscal gluttony and shaky monetary policy that are emerging as the likeliest threats to world stability and peace.