Pope Tells Hawking Not to Study Origins of Universe

In my opinion, several, and we have no way of knowing if that's an exact quote, or if that's the way Hawkins took something the pope said.IF the pope said "we should not enquire into..." and he ended it with anything, I'd be prone to disagreeing with him. However, what he has in mind as to "the beginning itself" (IF he even said it) is very subject to question. He could mean "how the beginning happened in whatever way it happened," which would imply only "we in the church have faith that no matter what happened, God chose for it to happen that way, and we refuse to question that God is the source." Or he could have meant, "Don't address anything before the big bang at all, because you're treading on heretical territory then," which would be what you are objecting to (I think).I thought I'd give a shot at answering the question you were willing to ask.