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The Vatican’s Big Bang

Francis X. Rocca

Turns out the Catholic Church has given its blessing to Switzerland’s CERN nuclear physics laboratory, which provides antimatter for the Vatican bomb plot in Angels and Demons, but in reality serves as a site of advanced research into the origins of the universe.

No surprise, actually, when you consider that the Big Bang itself was originally the hypothesis of a Belgian priest.

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