Welcome to Catholic Star Wars: The Principle v. Catholic Answers

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An Earth in the center of the universe just screams significance and purpose and, most of all, a Creator that truly cares for us. Why Jimmy Akin, and his boss, Karl Keating, would be against such an astounding possibility is a very great puzzle. Don’t they realize that if the scientific evidence puts Earth back in the center of the universe this means the Catholic Church is well on her way to being vindicated from all the jeers and accusations that have been thrown at it for the past four centuries since the time of Galileo? Don’t they see that with this new information the whole world could literally change overnight as mankind finally comprehends that the God who put the Earth in the center is the same God who revealed it to his Church and created the universe? What better platform is there from which to evangelize the world?

A Critique of Christopher Check's (President of Catholic Answers) Lecture on Galileo

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In August 2014, Christopher Check of Catholic Answers gave a one‐hour lecture to a group of Catholics in Arlington, Virginia, titled, “Galileo on Trial: Why the Church was Right.” Whereas many previous years of Catholic consensus had understood the Church to be wrong on Galileo, Mr. Check represents a new tactic – declare the Church was right even though he believes it was wrong.

Anatomy of a Smear Campaign: Karl Keating and Mark Shea

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I think it has become painfully obvious that Karl Keating, Mark Shea, and David Palm have become pathologically obsessed and deathly afraid of our movie, The Principle. In all my years as a Catholic, I’ve never seen such malicious vitriol. It usually comes from atheists and agnostics, but it’s sad to see it coming from people who wave the Christian banner. They actually think they are being good Christians by smearing other Christians who have an alternative interpretation of cosmological science (an interpretation that actually backs up the consensus of the Fathers and the two popes who condemned Galileo. Imagine that). Apparently we’ve hit a raw nerve.

Keating, Shea and Palm believe that any rejection of the popular interpretations of modern science (e.g., Big Bang, evolution, Copernicanism) simply makes the Catholic Church look bad in a modern society that has done a good job of removing itself from anything that has the marks of Catholic traditional teaching.

Since modernist Catholics now live in the age of ecumenism where everyone shakes hands and slaps each other on the back no matter how diverse their respective beliefs, it is simply passé to Keating, Shea and Palm that a Catholic should still be militant against something as popular as modern cosmology. After all, we all talk on cell phones and fly in jets, don’t we? What could be wrong with modern science? In fact, one could argue that the inventions of modern science make it much easier for the Catholic Church to communicate the Gospel to the world. What pope previous to our day could have envisioned that Catholic doctrine would be spread to the whole world over the Internet?

Karl Keating's "Scientific" Attempt to Debunk Geocentrism

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