So Fr Kennedy thinks Catholics believe heaven is some place in the sky and hell is some place below? I don’t know any Catholic who thinks such a thing. But hey why bother with facts when your goal is to try and make the Church look stupid. Yes there seems to be a natural tendency for humans to look skyward when contemplating God. Maybe that’s caused by an inbuilt understanding of God’s greatness.

Cameron you say “The Vatican seems to have been slightly progressive with some of those things [science, evolution, big band ??] over the last 50 years”.

It would be interesting to know from where you think the Catholic Church slightly progressed. I’m not aware of the Catholic Church ever condemning the theory of evolution (which the Church would claim is still “God” driven) as an explanation of how life forms have changed throughout earths existence. Have you? What the Church has condemned is the notion, promoted by the likes of atheist Richard Dawkins, that evolution some how proves the non existence of God - which of course it doesn’t. Jimmy Akin seems to give a good summation of the Catholic position here: catholic.com/thisrock/2004/0401bt.asp

I would also point that the “Big Bang” theory was first put forward by Belgian mathematician and Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre. See here: catholiceducation.org/articles/science/sc0022.html

The Big Bang theory, which is accepted by most scientists today, of course contradicts the previously held scientific consensus of a universe with no beginning. But more interesting is that it confirms the Catholic belief that the universe had a beginning (and presumably something to begin it), as well as Saint Augustine’s thinking in the 4th century that before God created the universe time did not exist.

It seems to me Fr Kennedy knows little about what Catholics are to believe and even less about science. I’d love to see the evidence that shows there are, as Kennedy says, “billions of universes”.