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Cardinal Bellarmine |
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ROBERT CARDINAL BELLARMINE (1542--1621) Born to a noble family, Bellarmine was well read in both Copernicus and Galileo and understood the mathematical foundations within the writings of each. An oath of allegiance to the king, denying support of the papacy, was established by Parliament; James attempted to defend it, thus arousing the ire of Cardinal Bellarmine and opening an extended war of words. And while he rejected the thesis that the Founding Fathers had been directly influenced by Cardinal Bellarmine, he nevertheless insisted "that the United States government as it came into being corresponds admirably with what the great sixteenth-century Jesuit theologian outlined as sound Catholic doctrine. |
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