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December 2, 2016

Why famed atheist Stephen Hawking is on a pontifical academy

Pope Francis greets Stephen Hawking, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, during a Nov. 28 meeting with the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican.

VATICAN CITY – Stephen Hawking’s visit to the Vatican this week has raised curiosity, with some asking what exactly the famed astrophysicist and self-proclaimed atheist was doing in the heart of the Catholic Church.

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