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The idea that Catholicism is opposed to science is extremely exaggerated, imo. Many branches of Protestantism are far worse, for example.

Most of the "classic" cases for the Catholic Church being opposed to it were actually not about science at all. With Galileo, for instance, he attacked the Pope personally in a pamphlet - in addition to leaning vaguely towards the "heretic" side of the coin.

Really, Catholicism has been pretty good to science. Their attitudes on evolution, for instance, are a very good example.