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see my post #16, and the page referenced.

Thanks, good link!

I think that page doesn't really show that Benedict was misleading, though... The Pope's point was that the Catholic Church historically supported science, not that it was always correct in the science it supported.

I do think the Learned Emperor the Pope quoted was correct about Islam as well, and the American conservative thinker Richard Weaver ("Ideas have Consequences") was wrong when he said that nominalism and positivism made for scientific advancement. The acceptance by historical Islam of a God who transcends reason, goodness and all other categories we can imagine rather than (the traditional Judeo-Christian) God who is the source of such things is one who has no use for laws of morality or laws of nature.

We are dealing what seem to me to be at least in large part the consequences of that belief today.