Stephen Hawking’s Fervor (by Benjamin J. Lindquist)

Anyone well-versed on the Roman Catholic Church knows that, like every human endeavor, its history is marred by acts of hubris. In the 1630’s, one of the Church’s most flawed judgments may have been the decision to put Galileo Galilei, arguably the father of modern science, under house arrest following an Inquisition. That incident is spotlighted...