Some Popular Catholic Myths Part 4

The Church is against Science

Really?  Tell that to Monseigneur Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, the Catholic Priest who first proposed the Big Bang Theory.  We must remember that it was the Catholic Church that founded the first University system.  The Church is also responsible for the first hospitals. 

Since the Middle Ages, Catholics – clergy and laity - have been responsible for some of history’s most significant scientific contributions, such as:

• William of Ockham (c.1288–c.1348) – Franciscan Friar known for the mathematical principle, Ockham's Razor
• Thomas Bradwardine (c.1290–1349) – Archbishop and one of the discoverers of the Mean Speed Theorem.
• Jean Buridan (c.1300–after 1358) – French priest who developed the Theory of Impetus.
• Nicole Oresme (c.1320–1382) – 14th century bishop who theorized the daily rotation of the earth on its axis differentiation, the concept of infinity, and the Binomial Theorem.
• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) – First person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric Cosmology.
• Christopher Clavius (1538–1612) – Jesuit who was the main architect of the Gregorian Clendar.
• Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) – Father of Modern Science
• Francesco Lana de Terzi (1631–1687) – Jesuit priest who has been called the Father of Aeronautics.
• Jean Picard (1620–1682) – French priest and Father of Modern Astronomy in France
• Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) – Father of Bacteriology.
• Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906–1996) – Roman Catholic sister and mathematician, founder of Sister Celine's Polynomials.
• Gerty Cori (1896–1957) – Biochemist who was the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in science (1947)  

All Non-Catholics are going to Hell
Not according to the Catechism:  847 This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church: Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those too may achieve eternal salvation.The bottom line is that we are saved by God’s grace alone.  However, we are saved through His Church.  As the Catechism states, those who are ignorant of Gospel and the Church may also be saved.  We leave such souls to the mercy of God.