Explaining the Faith - The Truth of Galileo: Church vs. Science?

well thank you everybody for joining us i'm father chris aylar here at the national shrine of the divine mercy it's an honor to have you with us as we continue our mini-series here on explaining the faith as we're going back to seminary and bringing you the notes and the training that i received in the greatest time of my life and we're excited because as you saw on your screen there are three things that for centuries have been the biggest black eyes of the catholic church and all three completely misunderstood the crusades and we already did a talk on that you can find it on our youtube channel the crusade's a big black eye not understood a lot of false understandings second is the inquisition i already did a talk on that a few weeks ago you again you could find it on our youtube channel and way lots of misunderstandings falsities about the inquisition totally not what you've learned and heard and the third big black eye galileo and that's going to be the topic of today's talk so let us begin in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen heavenly father we implore you to grace us and bless us with the presence of the holy spirit to help us discern using faith and reason the reason through science and other gifts that you give us to know your will in our lives and to follow it and mother mary we ask that you protect us and we offer all this to christ our lord amen in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen okay now many have embraced especially non-catholics even catholics this myth of galileo this 17th century italian astronomer he lived in the 1600s or the 17th century who discovered heliocentris i'll explain what that means in a minute and of the solar system and was basically thrown into jail tortured forced to recant because it conflicted with catholic church teaching this is complete fabrication if you go to the primary sources himself you'll learn what really happened and that's what we're here for today now galileo was not tortured he was not even thrown into prison he died happily at home but yet we catholics whenever we hear this we don't know what to say well today we're going to do a shorter talk than normal and help you now let's go to our next slide here's galileo in fact and this is him you could see his time and he lived in the 17th century now in fact though it wasn't even his idea now okay the the the whole point is that the church believed that the earth was the center of the universe and everything including the sun revolved around the earth that's the geocentric uh centric view all right now the helio this is different now and um this view is more uh about the understanding and it's called heliocentricity that the sun is the center of the solar system and the earth revolves around it now it ended up being correct but he was not totally correct the earth was not the center yes he was right on that but neither is the sun the center of the universe it's not and in fact the solar system revolves around our galaxy the milky way galaxy right so this is important now we're going to show you here that actually this wasn't even his idea it came guess where the original idea came now it kind of goes back to the greeks and the romans but it was copernicus a catholic priest who actually was embraced by the church and was never persecuted earlier for having this very same theory so if the church persecuted anybody who wanted to follow science they should have persecuted copernicus but they didn't copernicus had the same view there's a difference why galileo got himself into trouble and we're going to talk about that all right so this whole mess of this galileo affair is not showing the church is against science okay so copernicus i'll show the the slide this is copernicus he is the catholic priest you can see on your screen now this whole mess was not showing catholic church is against science it's not it at all in fact name more than one scientist this is chris sparks chris sparks one of our writers wrote in his book name more than one scientist in history who was ever arrested or convicted by the catholic church because of their scientifically sound sound conclusions remember galileo science science was not sound entirely had a lot of flaws and that's what the church took issue with all right some may use that example of in the 16th century this dominican giordano bruno but he was put to death not for his scientific views he's put to death for other views now the church has always embraced science and catholics contributing to science let's look at our next slide you've overheard of the name roger bacon we learned about human philosophy and public schools teacher about robert bacon you probably heard the name roger bacon i think i said robert roger bacon should although it you won't hear in the public schools he's a catholic priest supported fully by the catholic church he was a franciscan friar and he is the first proponent of experimental science doing experiments he's the first one catholic priest copernicus we just mentioned a catholic priest who held his views before galileo what about blaise pascal if you're into calculus and whatnot you know his name all right what about gregor mendel he was a catholic priest and get this the father of genetics the father of genetics a catholic priest and what about george's lamatra he was a catholic priest who founded the big bang theory now there's questions even about that today we'll talk about that in a minute now what about all these catholic universities catholic health care systems these are all science based what about the catholic and this is interesting the pontifical academy of the sciences the church embraces science doesn't conflict with religion oh father that vatican observatory oh they named their telescope lucifer i get this all the time comments on this very channel explain that father explain why the vatican named their telescope lucifer it's satanic the church is satanic you know the truth the vatican first of all doesn't even own that telescope they share the same observatory with several different institutions at the university of arizona look it up the university of arizona has these large telescopes and and scientific equipment first for astronomy and study of the stars the one that they as an acronym l-u-c-i stands for something totally different about the telescope was nicknamed by a completely different institution lucifer that was their nickname it just so happens that the vatican shares some space in that same technology park can you believe that's how that rumor got started that the vatican named their telescope lucifer false false false this is what we hear this is what we're taught and this is what we don't know how to defend so this is the purpose of this talk all right let's keep going the church believes technology though has moral implications and the use of the knowledge gained that we gained has to be considered in the light of the dignity of the human person let me give an example what about human cloning does anybody think here that there's no issues with human cloning of course there are that's the church's role human cloning is a real moral issue so is artificial intelligence where we can create something artificial that only the human brain can do that's a moral issue the church is supposed to be involved in science not to define science or declare what is scientifically correct but its implication on our moral life that is what happened with galileo he tried to claim that this proof scripture was wrong now the church's job even though he may or may not be right is when somebody comes out and says scripture is wrong the church has to come and say wait a minute here let's look at this and that's all it did with galileo as we'll talk about now in other words the church does care about the consequences of scientific progress not that they're against science you know chris sparks again said catholicism is fundamentally open to science but it must be critical of how it's used if we use science to wipe out all of mankind with a nuclear bomb is anybody going to dispute that the church shouldn't say something if all of a sudden in a few minutes china russia and the united states get in a war they nuclear war each other out of oblivion does anybody gonna say gee the churches shouldn't be involved in science no not the science and making atoms and uh configuring atoms but the science of the implication all right so the problem with galileo is that his science as i just said appeared to contradict scripture so the church was cautious now right after the reformation in 1517 this is when galileo lived the next hundred years the church was skeptical of miracles and began to demand medical and scientific evidence so the church even before galileo embraced science people don't get this they even recruited scientists now some of the fathers of science catholic great tradition the church has of learned priests that were scientists and men of faith like roger bacon we just said let's take another slide i mentioned lumatra he was a belgian priest a physicist and mathematician and he was the one that gave us the big bang theory the birth of the universe that's his picture standing there with who einstein einstein now the accepted idea in physics at the time was that the universe was changeless it was in a steady state all right now einstein said that the universe was actually moving so if this is the universe einstein at the belief that before einstein was it was set it was steady it was it was just set and einstein came and said no the universe is moving it's expanding or it's shrinking but it's moving now here's the thing the matra came in and he concluded that the universe was expanding and he proposed that from this listen to this it could be concluded that all matter and energy were consecrated at concentrated i should say consecrated too concentrated at one point hence the universe had a beginning and something created it now we're finding through the large telescopes that maybe even the big bang theory isn't correct because the going back and seeing the light from these galaxies billions of light years away if the big bang was correct they would be hot they would be molten but they're not they're already defined which means god could have just went and created something out of nothing he didn't even need a big bang this is incredible so what all happened all right so einstein stood up and he said this is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation i have ever heard this is a catholic priest the church embraces science so in 1936 pope pius xi inducted lumatra into the pontifical academy of science you know earlier work of galileo garnered him high praise from the popes paul the fifth gregory the 15th urban the eighth come on the church didn't throw him in a dungeon and torture him but this is what you will be told why well there were a lot of other notable science taught scientists of the church let's look at them st mead you know who he was he became pope sylvester ii he was a pope and a scientist i bet you didn't know that sylvester ii was a pope and a scientist promoted mathematics and astronomy in church schools all right what about hermanus contractus he was a monk and he fostered geometry and mathematics what about pope john the 21st he was a politif a pope and an author of a lot of work on medicine what about saint albertus magnus he's one of the greatest theologians in the history of the church and he's the patron saint of scientists thomas this is a good one brad warden he was an english archbishop and advanced the principles of mechanics nicole or orisme he was a french philosopher bishop of lazio where saint um saint therese was he was a mathematician and his work helped inspire leonarde leonardo da vinci you get the point all right let's move on now what happened to galileo let's look at our next slide all right many believe that the church persecuted galileo this is what you're going to be told because he abandoned the geocentric view that's the one on your left that the earth is the center of the universe and he abandoned that for the view of the solar system being a heliocentric meaning the sun is at the center as you see on the right side now for many anti-catholics this galileo case proves that the catholic church abhor science they want to keep you in the dark they don't want you educated they want you to be a follower they want you to be a sheep so that they can control you false false false the church embraces faith and reason inspired scientists supported scientists now people will say this shows the church refuses to abandon outdated teachings and it's not infallible the pope is not infallible all right here's the thing the church is not anti-scientific as i said it supported a lot of science over the centuries in fact the jesuits had a whole group of scientists right in rome at this time fascinating many noble scientists notable scientists receive funding from the church many scientific advances were made through church support copernicus in fact dedicated his work on the revolution of the celestial orbs to pope paul iii now here's what's interesting you know who did condemn copernicus and galileo big time martin luther but we don't hear about that martin luther condemned him let's take a look at the next slide this is johannes kepler 10 years before galileo he published a heliocentric work that expanded on copernicus way it see this is even before galileo and kepler was attacked by protestants not the catholic church for his heliocentric view and he found welcome reception amongst the catholic church and the jesuits the problem with galileo was not his science views it was what he did after his disobedience and his refusal to teach it as a theory but he taught it a scientific fact they had no scientific fact that it was true it ended up being true but the church said listen galileo just like kepler just like copernicus don't teach this as scientific fact it appears to contradict scripture please teach it teach it all you want but say that it is right now a hypothesis a theory do not teach it as scientific fact this appears to contradict scripture now it may be right but we have to get the facts first and galileo refused that was the issue with galileo not that he had a scientific theory so did copernicus and so did kepler but they taught it as a theory until it could be proven galileo did not and the church handled it exactly how she would have or should have for the most part there were some mistakes but we'll talk about that all right so what happened all right we're going to talk about the torture and all this now anti-catholics okay um so anyway kepler uh was found in opposition among the protestants and um and then we go to now the other anti-catholics who cite galileo as an example that the church refused to abandon its incorrect teaching now let's look at our next slide this is the trial of galileo wow father you mean the galileo went to trial all right people failed to realize that the judges who presided over galileo's case were not the only people who held geocentric views of the universe they weren't it was common amongst most all scientists so it wasn't just the church who held the geocentric view that the earth is the center most scientists still did so this is interesting copernicus the one right before him before galileo refrained from publishing his heliocentric theory meaning the sun is the center and the earth revolves around that out of fear not from the church but fear of his colleagues the scientists that would say you were wrong this is what people don't realize galileo could have safely proposed heliocentrism that the sun is the center of the solar system and the earth revolves around it as a theory or a method to explain the planet's movements his problem he stopped proposing it as a theory and proclaimed it as truth there was no conclusive truth at the time that's all the church was saying even so galileo would not have been in so much trouble if he had chosen to stay within the realm of science and not got into theology he came out and said the bible is wrong copernicus didn't do that kepler didn't do that that's why the church had no problem with him galileo kept coming out saying the bible is wrong so in 1614 galileo argued that it was not contrary to scripture uh or that it was that scripture was wrong in a way that it was not contrary because people were misunderstanding scripture that's kind of interesting psalms 93 psalm 104 ecclesiastes 1 verse 5 they speak of celestial motion and terrestrial stability now literally reading the bible as a fundamentalist you would have to abandon the heliocentric theory and that's all the church was saying if what you're saying is true we got to abandon scripture but that's not how you read scripture we don't read scripture as literally true so father if you're if you're if you're with me here here's what's going through your mind well father if this science ended up being true that the earth is not the center and the sun doesn't revolve around the earth then scripture is wrong well that's what galileo was saying so father now i'm confused no scripture is read in what we call phenomenological language that is the language of appearances let me give you an example in the bible it says the sun will rise and set as far as the east is from the west the sun will rise and set does the sun rise and set no the sun doesn't rise and set the earth rotates and it makes it appear that the sun rises and sets it looks like the sun comes up we on earth are set and the sun goes down it doesn't the sun was set fixed the earth rotated so it makes it appear that the sun rises and sets that's not against the bible the bible says the sun rises and sets it uses phenomenological language people don't get this rather than the earth turning the sun was lost as a set so the ancients talked about this from our perspective the sun appears to rise and set the earth appears to be fixed but it's not that doesn't mean the bible's wrong the bible's language uses our appearances phenomenological that's why john paul was a phenomenologist all right let's keep going next next slide so galileo went to rome to see pope paul v who turned the matter over to the holy office that was under him and yes they did condemn galileo's theory in 1616 so here's what's interesting he then said it's time for a showdown all right galileo at his request cardinal robert bellarmine issued a certificate that yes it forbade galileo to hold and defend heliocentricity that it was fact it did not prevent him from hypothesizing it he could have went and taught it all he wanted if he just would have said listen this is a theory we haven't proven it yet but we're working on it all right now urban viii even gave him permission to write a work on heliocentrism the church embraced it but cautioned him not to advocate this new position totally as fact because it wasn't proven all right just give the arguments for and against it when galileo heard this he disobeyed he wrote a word called dialogue on the two world systems and he took the pope's words and he put him into a dumb character named simplicio which means simplistic and he mocked the pope this was the problem galileo alienated the jesuits and the church he attacked them he attacked them but you don't learn this in school all you learn in public school is how the church attacked galileo ironically it was the opposite it was the opposite now did the church not make mistakes of course they did we'll talk about that so galileo did this the result was an infamous trial where people said the church wants nothing to do with science false so let's watch a less than a one minute video this is a really quick video of one of my favorite priests people write me all the time father who are the best priests to listen to father mark goring father mitch pacqua and this is one of the best father spitzer uh he's on ewtn regularly and here's a short clip of only a minute where he addresses galileo let's watch it marianne the question wasn't about the heliocentric solar system the church had already accepted the possibility of that we were just waiting for observational evidence by the way that observational evidence didn't come until 1832 when the german astronomer friedrich bessel actually performed the first accurate stellar parallax proving the heliocentric solar system but that's all the church asked galileo to do it wasn't against the heliocentric solar system it wanted the proof just like any peer-reviewed scientific journal would want the proof if somebody's going to make the statement this is a fact you have to back the fact up with the observational evidence and galileo didn't do it and that's all the church got mad about because of course he didn't have the evidence and like i said scientific journals today would be equally mad if somebody proclaims something to be a fact without the evidence so that video was father spitzer um it was one of my favorites he actually endorsed my book and brother jason's book on the concept of god being outside of time it was a book about suicide and how you can still pray for your loved ones and i called one day and and he gave me like an hour and a half out of his time what a what a beautiful priest but if you heard what he said there he said the problem for the church wasn't that copernicus and and kepler and any of those guys presented the same theory as is galileo the difference was how galileo handled it as i keep saying he taught it as fact and it wasn't the church simply said give us proof he didn't so the church is like hold on and they condemned his actions not his science but what his teaching decided to present it as truth when he didn't have the evidence yet all right now let's talk about the torture oh yeah he was thrown in chains and his fingernails were plucked out i even got a letter from people that they put ants in his ears to crawl into his brain so that they his brain would no longer be able to function scientifically are are you kidding me none of this is true none of it and so what is true okay galileo made his first appearance before the inquisition now remember inquisition is just trying to get the facts in 1615 and he was not imprisoned and he was not tortured this was the first time he received a mild sensor and was sent on his way oh how horrible catholic church so he was told he kept doing it doing it doing it not till 1633 18 years later he had to be summoned to rome again for doing the same thing to face charges that he had persisted in promoting his theories as though they were matters of faith and provable by the bible during his second stint before the inquisition galileo now was incarcerated after 18 years of running a monk all right finally he was incarcerated not as you may think or told in some gloomy rat infested dungeon but in a palace he was placed in a palace a palace of nicolini the tuscan ambassador to the vatican who is a friend of galileo but you've never learned this he lived in a palace and nicolini said the sentence was just and this was his good friend take a load of this had there been any treachery or torture nicolini one of his biggest fans galileo's big fan would have certainly said so he said nothing of the sort happened in fact get a load of what he said he says he has a servant galileo had a servant he used to bring him his meals he sent regular reports to rome saying he was given every comfort and as i said even a servant boy this is real torture in the end galileo did recant his heliocentric teachings but it was not as commonly thought under torture nor even harsh imprisonment he was treated very well yes it was house arrest but that could be like putting you in the white house and saying you know you're under arrest as a story and check the facts too read the actual writings primary sources of nicolini or even giorgio de santilliana he said it was not and he was basically not a fan of the catholic church but he said quote we must if anything admire the cautiousness and the legal scruples of the roman catholic authorities galileo was offered every convenience possible to make his imprisonment in his home bearable quite different from what you hear yeah it's true this is true we'll admit it gotta hit the facts i'm gonna give you all the facts it is true that there was a decree by pope urban viii that said torture could be used if necessary that is true but no tertiary was ever carried out all primary sources confirmed this and everybody agrees to this the records demonstrate that galileo could not have been tortured because there was already a regulation in the church called the directory for inquisitors in 1595 before galileo that forbid it and in fact noted scientist alfred north whitehead said in an age that saw a large number of witches subjected to torture and execution by protestants in new england quote the worst that happened to the men of science was that galileo suffered an honorable detention and mild reproof that's it so feel free everybody to come forward we got space of every i was just teasing the crowd here everybody's a good catholic they're all crammed in the very back so feel free to come forward all right let's finish with just a couple more subjects first of all non-catholics will tell us this proves the pope is not infallible because he was wrong about galileo all right let's talk about this anti-catholics will say that convicting galileo disproves the doctrine that the pope is infallible couldn't be the pope can be failed because he was wrong about galileo well interesting this is not the case because the pope never made an infallible ruling about galileo the church never said this is infallibly taught that the earth is the center of the universe we said it appears to be what scripture teaches the pope never said that's infallible the church never claims that their ordinary tribunal such as the one that judged galileo was infallible church never said that let's look at our next slide there are three conditions that must be met for a pope to be infallible one he must speak in his official capacity as the successor of peter ii he must speak on a matter of faith or morals it doesn't say science it doesn't say science the pope is not infallible regarding science our church teaches this so don't let anybody tell you that galileo proves the pope isn't not infallible and three he must define the doctrine as one that must be held by everybody the pope never said that everybody must believe the earth is the center of the universe never so in galileo's case these conditions were not present so we're not saying that this proves the pope is infallible catholic theology has never claimed that a tribunal decree like we had with uh galileo is invaluable no the strongest claim that can be made here is that the church of galileo's day issued a non-infallible disciplinary ruling disciplining galileo had nothing to do with infallible teaching this was a scientist who was advocating a new and unproven theory demanding that the church change its understanding of scripture to fit his and the church said no can do it's good that the church did not rush to embrace galileo you'll never hear this in a public school never ever ever but this is what i learned in seminary and i'm teaching to you it is good that the church did not embrace galileo's views right away you know why because a lot of it was wrong he said the sun was the center of the universe yes he was correct that the earth revolved around the sun but he said the sun was the center of the universe that's incorrect we know that now galileo was wrong on that part he was right that the earth revolved around the sun but he was wrong that the sun is not the center of the earth that the sun is the center of the universe all right it turned out that his ideas as i said were not entirely correct he believed that the sun was not just the fixed center of the solar system but the center of the universe we now know that the sun is not the center of the universe and that it does move our solar system actually orbits the center of our galaxy what galaxy are we in the milky way our solar system is just part of that and our solar system so here's here's what's interesting everybody you have the sun and our solar system with our planets our planets revolve around our sun that's our solar system but get us everybody guess what that whole solar system revolves around our milky way galaxy he was wrong he was right on the part that the earth revolves around the sun but he was wrong that the sun is the center of the universe so the church was good not to embrace everything he said because then the church would have definitely been wrong see you don't hear that you don't learn that so it's good gallow believed in all of this all right he believed that our solar system and i just explained that so had the church rush to endorse this and there were many in the church who did favor galileo the church would have embraced what modern science has rejected now if that was the case you'd have anti-catholics saying look how stupid the church was gullible they jumped and they fell for this false teaching so you can't win all you got to do is know the truth all right so patrick madrid i'm getting close to finishing here did a good study on the paper scene galileo now what he said was the catholic church has never defined any theory of physical science as a matter of faith the pope is only infallible regarding faith and morals not science there never was any dogma saying that the catholic church believes that the earth is the center of the universe so here it is everybody in public school i learned thank goodness for galileo he disproved catholic church dogma that the earth is the center of the universe the catholic church has never taught that as dogma this is false the next time people claim that galileo bravely challenged church dogma and showed us as stupid false false it was galileo's perceived attack on theology which was a unique authority of the church that drew the church's concern all right last half a page the church finally acted after years so we see that it wasn't galileo's heliocentric theory which moved the church to censor him not at all the catholic church doesn't try to evade the fact that the tribunal of the church condemning galileo was right the church we're not going to say that condemning galileo and his theory fully was wrong because he was partially correct but the error doesn't compromise the integrity of the church or violate our doctrine of infallibility not at all was the church wrong to ban galileo's writings fully yeah but not entirely so i guess you should say instead of saying yeah i should say partially in some sense could be made the case can be made that the church was correct although the bishops who condemned his theories were wrong with respect to the earth revolving around the sun they were certainly not an error for trying to protect the faith trying to protect the faithful from what appeared to contradict scripture the church was trying to protect the bible and guess what everybody so was martin luther and john calvin they condemned galileo too but you never hear this galileo may have been right with his basic scientific theory but he got all the reasons for it all wrong so again the church knew what she was doing galileo made the mistake of going outside the realm of science and invaded the field of theology so patrick madrid says i think that's accurate it is the church's job to protect from these things even science if it's yet unproven hmm so was the galileo case an embarrassment to the church yeah was the situation rectified later yes and the galileo story remains one of the biggest three eye three black eyes of the catholic church if you missed the beginning of this talk one the crusades we already did a talk on that totally misunderstood to the inquisition we already did a talk on that can find it here on youtube totally misunderstood and now galileo completely a black eye completely misunderstood but the church opened up to it in 1825 an official document by don moliveri he was the general of the dominican order in the commissary of the holy office apologized for fully condemning galileo's work but understood correctly in its historical context it proves nothing except perhaps that the catholic church is very serious in her efforts to safeguard the flock from serious error how do you condemn the church for trying to protect the bible well they should never have tortured him father the church didn't torture galileo well the church shouldn't have put him in a dungeon with rats and infest church didn't put him in a dungeon he lived in a palace under house arrest so our final slide in 1989 john paul ii and i got this letter father explain to me galileo why john paul ii apologized that admits the church was wrong and didn't know what she was doing and is not infallible all right so let's look at this john paul two apologized for the church's handling of the case that's what he apologizes showing the purpose of the church's theology not science he never apologized that we tortured galileo and we're sorry because we didn't he never apologized for throwing galileo in a dungeon because we didn't he apologized that the handled case was not correctly done but in my opinion they let him go for 18 years telling him not to teach it as fact because he didn't have the facts teach it as a theory he disobeyed he said that the pope at the time was not acting in his capacity of a teacher but a prudent guardian so really the word apology is kind of relative here so to understand history all right throw away the modern lens this is christopher clark he did a good article copernicus was encouraged by priests of the church to publish his work of heliocentricity and that book was dedicated to pope paul the third and he embraced it luther and calvin they were in fits luther called copernicus a fool a fool all right the church as cardinal bellarmine explained to galileo in 1616 needed to deliberate in interpreting scriptural passages that seem to contradict the discoveries of modern astronomy the church was just trying to protect the bible and science so finally cardinal john henry newman said galileo might be right in his conclusion that the earth moves around the sun and to consider him a heretic might have been wrong but there was nothing wrong in censoring unverified claims of galileo at a time when the limits of revealed truth had not as yet been ascertained a man ought to be sure of what he is saying and can prove it before he risks contradicting the word of god that was the fault of galileo it was a safe not 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suffering or loss call us 800-462-7426 and visit us at shopmercy.org well thank you everybody god bless you and we hope to see you in buffalo on august 27th at our divine mercy conference great speakers teresa tomeo steve ray kelly wallquist myself so god bless you and in many many graces throughout this day in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen [Music] i thought we were going to go and visit my dad's grave today i know it's the anniversary of his passing and i can't remember the last time you went there i know i know you loved him very much but he's not here anymore i don't think he'd be upset if you don't go visit his grave this one time [Music] or a soul in purgatory family or loved ones are of no importance if they cannot be expected to help them [Music] and the only way to help and the ultimate proof of love or friendship which the soul desires and awaits more than anything is prayer you

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Length: 53min 55sec (3235 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 20 2022