The Daily Beast reports that astronomers met at the Vatican for a conference in honour of Georges Lemaître. Lemaître, a Catholic priest and astronomer, proposed in 1927 the notion of a "primordial atom" from which the Universe originated. His idea is now commonly called the Big Bang theory. The article notes that the words "God" and "religion" are absent from the titles of the presentations.
Slides (PDF) associated with the presentations are available from the Web site of the Vatican Observatory.
further reading:
official announcement
biography of Lemaître
The Cornell Daily Sun article about Lemaître
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday May 19 2017, @01:36PM
By the way, if you need some more info about abuse, here's a Newsweek article [newsweek.com] that came up in the first few hits of an internet search. There's other stuff out there, but the reality is that it's much easier to quantify abuse statistics for the Catholic Church due to its records. Given that the Newsweek article quotes people like leaders from National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as well as insurance companies who offer sex abuse riders for multiple denominations -- and they don't see more abuse cases coming from the Catholic Church -- I'll trust them since they're mostly likely to actually know something about abuse stats.