Kresta in the Afternoon – February 23, 2024 – Hour 1

Author: Bryant Schoenle Published on: February 23, 2024 Published in: Al Kresta

Paul Shrimpton tells the story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Resistance to the Nazis, and Cory Hayes reviews what happened in the Galileo Affair.

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What the White Rose Students Can Teach Today’s Young Scholars

On February 22, 1943, Hans and Sophie Scholl were put to death for their resistance efforts against the Nazis. Today, they are regarded as national heroes in Germany and are among the best-known examples of Nazi resistance from within Germany. Paul Shrimpton tells their story and their legacy.

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‘Conscience Before Conformity’: What the White Rose Students Can Teach Today’s Young Scholars

Dr Paul Shrimpton is the author of Conscience before Conformity: Hans and Sophie Scholl and the White Rose resistance in Nazi Germany. He teaches at Magdalen College School in Oxford, England and is a specialist in history of education. HIs other books are "A Catholic Eton? Newman's Oratory School" and "The 'making of men': the Idea and reality of Newman's university in Oxford and Dublin."

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Galileo’s Theological Contributions

On the evening of February 26, 1616, Galileo met a future saint. 73-year-old Cardinal Robert Bellarmine had been ordered by the Vatican to inform Galileo that he must abandon his support of Copernicanism, the idea that the earth and other celestial bodies orbit the sun. The Galileo affair is often used as a prime example of faith and science being incompatible, but it’s also one of the most misunderstood events in Church history. We talk more about it with Cory Hayes.

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The End of the Galileo Affair: Galileo’s Theological Contributions

Even Doctors of the Church Make Theological Mistakes Now and Again