{"id":4571,"date":"2006-08-21T09:41:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T14:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/08\/21\/new-director-of-the-vatican-astronomical-observatory\/"},"modified":"2006-08-21T09:41:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T14:41:04","slug":"new-director-of-the-vatican-astronomical-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/08\/new-director-of-the-vatican-astronomical-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"New director of the Vatican Astronomical Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">VATICAN CITY (Zenit.org) &#8212; Benedict XVI appointed Jesuit Father Jos&eacute; Gabriel Funes as the new director of the Vatican Astronomical Observatory, replacing Jesuit Father George Coyne. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Father Coyne, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, had been director of the observatory since 1978.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The Vatican press office announced the new director on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Father Funes, 43, is a native of Cordoba, Argentina. He earned a degree in astronomy from the University of Cordoba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">He studied theology in Rome at the Gregorian University, and earned a doctorate in astronomy from the University of Padua in 2000. Father Funes has done considerable research on disk galaxies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Well this is going to mess up the media&#8217;s annual rediscovery and shock of the Vatican observatory and put it out of cycle. Starting earlier in the month the media once again started running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotte.com\/mld\/charlotte\/news\/nation\/15277483.htm\">articles on this subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;People often ask me: `Do you believe in the Big Bang or in creation by God?&#8217;&quot; Stoeger said, &quot;and my answer is, `Yes.&#8217;&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY (Zenit.org) &#8212; Benedict XVI appointed Jesuit Father Jos&eacute; Gabriel Funes as the new director of the Vatican Astronomical Observatory, replacing Jesuit Father George Coyne. Father Coyne, a native&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}