It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.

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Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

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The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

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The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

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Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.

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Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

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The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

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Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.

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The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.

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The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange--all sponsored by the Church--provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution.

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