Is Pope Benedict XVI Promoting Geocentrism?


The following is taken from Pope Benedict’s October 2009 Speech to Members of Symposium on International Year of Astronomy

It is my hope that the wonder and exaltation which are meant to be the fruits of this International Year of Astronomy will lead beyond the contemplation of the marvels of creation to the contemplation of the Creator, and of that Love which is the underlying motive of his creation – the Love which, in the words of Dante Alighieri, “moves the sun and the other stars” (Paradiso XXXIII, 145).

The Love that moves the sun and all the other stars. Love of course is the Blessed Trinity - the creator of the heavens. The consensus today is that the Sun is immovable and the Earth revolves around the immovable Sun, for any one to claim otherwise would certainly be laughed at. Dante held to the correct opinion that the Earth was the center of the Universe and is immovable, according to great minds like Dante, it was the Sun that moved, not the earth. Dante believed that the Sun moved from east to west across the sky. (As any one can observe, but too many today wish to deny the obvious). Of course Dante was right, but modern men know better than Dante (the modern mind afterall is so much more evolved). So why would the Pope quote a poet who believed that the Sun moves across the sky and the earth remained immovable? Oversight by the Pope? Or something more going on here? Who knows -it’s just poetry afterall. Funny how the vast majority did not catch on to Pope’s use of this quote from the Divine Poet. No one is paying attention.


See Saturday, October 31, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI Quotes The Divine Poet Dante Alighieri In Speech to Members of Symposium on International Year of Astronomy

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  1. Interesting point. I read everything the pope says and I failed to notice it myself.

    It honestly would not surprise me. Benedict, like most popes before him, sees himself as the lord of heaven, earth, and the nether regions. He (theoretically) has the power to decree anything when he is speaking ex cathedra. . .does he not?

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  2. Robert said “Benedict, like most popes before him, sees himself as the lord of heaven, earth, and the nether regions”

    Robert you misunderstand the authority of the Pope. Using Pope Benedict’s own words: “there is an urgent need for a true world political authority” should make anyone realize that the Pope does not claim to have the capability to universally govern in temporal matters or to be lord over the earth. Instead Pope Benedict is acknowledging that universally governing temporal matters does not belong to the domain of the Papacy but belongs to secular men to create a true world political authority to universally govern temporal matters. The pope is the vicar of Christ and he knows his place and he is not the lord of heaven, earth, and the nether regions nor does he claim to be, the Pope knows “That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth”. The pope may be the lord in what has been given to him by the Blessed Trinity just as the Holy Roman Emperor is lord over what has been given to him by the Blessed Trinity. Both authorities are to universally govern men, the one universal authority in spiritual matters and the other universal authority in temporal matters. So both authorities would be considered lords over their respective domains.

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