What a load of twaddle!  I'm a traditional Catholic and have a great interest in many sciences including astrophysics.  No problems.  It's comments like "When people do not understand what science is and what it is saying, they seem to want to kill off erudite scientific thought." which reveal who really has a problem.  'True' Catholicism is true and unchangeable whatever new revelations and knowledge arise from science research.  It's those whose faith is weak and those who simply don't want God in their 'religion' who become uncomfortable, which leads to them trying to do the impossible - to make God fit into a scientific equation!  God is outside science as He is outside all the laws of his Creation.