The catholic church can hardly be said to be pro-science. Rather it is employing all the cunning and devious craft it has mastered through its two thousand year history to continue to perpetuate its own superstition based moral dominance in the era of science.
It obstructed for as long as it could every major step in humanity's endeavor to expand our understanding of the world by science, and when it finally could do so no longer, it tries through sophistry co-opt the fruits of that step.
It obstructed for as long as it could every major step in humanity's endeavor to expand our understanding of the world by science, and when it finally could do so no longer, it tries through sophistry co-opt the fruits of that step.