Galileo's ghost haunts Catholics on stem cells

Tuesday's top RNS offering concerns the Catholic Church's stance on stem cell research, and its struggle in defining the church's relationship with science and progress: "In the ongoing debate over stem cells, Catholic leaders have faced a two-pronged battle against public opinion that generally favors the research, even among Catholics. But perhaps the larger struggle has been trying to quiet the ghost of Galileo, whose condemnation for the pursuit of science has, for better or worse, haunted the church ever since."