Protestant to Head Pontifical Academy of Sciences · February 03, 2011
The ecumenical movement is being taken to another level. The Vatican has announced that a protestant will head the Vatican’s scientific academy for the first time in history.
Nobel laureate, Werner Arber, 81, a microbiologist, will head the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, founded in 1603, at the Vatican, which has about 30 Nobel laureates as members.
“Arber, who teaches at the University of Basel, shared a 1978 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine [with two Americans] for the discovery and application of restriction enzymes.”
Arber has been a member of the Vatican’s scientific academy since May 1981 and figures on the board of directors.
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences obviously uses these Nobel laureates to increase its credibility and influence. But to appoint a protestant to head the academy is significant.
Steadily and stealthily the Roman church is increasing its influence and power.
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