The Infant Jesus of Prague shows you clearly that the Earth is a Globe, as Sacred Scripture and the Church Fathers have taught

I don't think Scripture asserts the Earth is a globe.

It has however been common knowledge for > 2000 years, which includes the patristic period.

So while I'm sure one could muster several patristic quotes mentioning a glove earth, I suspect most would mention it as natural common knowledge, and not ex professo as something revealed.

Wrong chapter.  We're talking about Chapter 32.

We? Are you legion?

I don't think Scripture asserts the Earth is a globe.

  Isaiah 40:22:  It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.

And in the Hebrew it utilizes the sameword ח֝֗וּג "ḥūḡ", which, again, means "a circle".

As DigitalLogos pointed out earlier, in this verse from Isaiah, the word "globe" comes from the word hebrew meaning "circle".  A circle, including the heavens/firmament, is awfully similar to what St Bede described.

You are talking about the red excerpt; I am talking about the blue.  "Pilae/pila".

but rather like a ball/sphere/mortar/pier/pillar, turned on all sides by an equal and round shape

If you include St Bede's description of the heavens (ch 16) being perfectly round, then an argument can be made that he was INCLUDING the heavens in his description of the sphere earth.

The description of the heavens as perfectly round refers to the universe as a whole.  In this cosmology the earth is a  sphere set at the center of the larger sphere of the universe.  We know that earth only refers to the land mass because of the bit just after what I quoted, "... the enormous distance of mountains and valleys neither adds to it nor diminishes it any more than a finger would a playing ball."  He is explaining why mountains and valleys do not affect the sphericity of earth. 

As for "pila," in this context, one should translate it as something that is equally round from every direction.  That eliminates all the possibilities but "ball" and "sphere"

Laughable, embarrassing, juvenile.  Only a programmed indoctrinated fool would believe this "live" view of earth is reality.  These are photos over which the mechanical show-arm passes to give the impression the shot is live.  The clouds never move.  The water is plastic looking, as if at times they are gliding over a model.  Consider the curve itself.  If you complete the "sphere" by tracing the missing circle, the earth turns out to be the size of a model. 

Globers be like, "Proof!"

There are literally hundreds of obviously faked NASA space movies out there.  It's really pathetic and embarrassing to us as a nation.

I have no horse in this race, since it doesn't mean too much to me if Venerable Bede thought the earth was a sphere, but in reading the passage, I have to agree with Pax that the description sounds more like the globe in the sense of putting the vaulted dome on top ... like the old snow globe.

I have trouble seeing how anyone could get that interpretation, even looking at the passage in isolation, and it is untenable in its wider context. It is preceded by citing Pliny's observations in support of spherical earth. The part I quoted explains that the spherical shape of the earth is the cause of days being different lengths at different times of year.  Then, St. Bede describes how the sun orbits the sphere of the earth and how that causes seasons.  Then he writes about stars.

This can be known not only from the orbit of the Sun, but also from the location of all the stars which take their courses beneath the different regions of the pole. Indeed, it is because of this same sphericity of the Earth that many of the most brilliant stars of the southern region are never seen by us. On the other hand, our northern stars are to a large degree concealed from them. Hence, the Trogodyte and his Egyptian neighbour do not see those polar stars which are straight over our heads, and which never set. In fact, not only we in Britain, but even the Italians cannot see their brightest star Canopus, which once was worshipped under the name of a god. This is not because the light of the stars is withdrawn by gradually fading, and fails entirely for those at a greater distance, but because the mass of the Earth standing in the way prevents our seeing.

That is a standard sphere earth proof and does not apply to the "snow globe" model, as far as I know.  Then, in the next chapter he cites Pliny's description of lines of latitude that circle a spherical earth.  Taken as a whole there is little question that St. Bede is using a sphere earth model comparable to Aristotle's or Pliny's.  There is no justification for claiming he is writing about a flat earth surrounded by a spherical atmosphere.

Again, it's a question of what Bede means by a "sphere".  In the passage cited by Pax, it does in fact seems as if his notion regarding the sphere includes the dome.

Given the way that the passage I quoted is sandwiched between two large citations from Pliny (which St. Bede alludes to as  "in a book which is non-religious, yet not to be condemned") it is quite clear that St. Bede means by "sphere" what Pliny means by "sphere".  There is no question that Pliny does not include a dome. 

Pax quoted a reference to "heavens" that he claims means the atmosphere surrounding a flat earth, but that interpretation does not work in context.  This "heavens" clearly refers to sphere of the universe which contains the celestial bodies which orbit the earth.  This is the classical model in which both the earth and universe are spheres, with the earth placed at the center of the universe.  This model does not include the domed flat earth proposed by Pax.

  As I said, though, I'm not too concerned about it.  People can have different opinions regarding matters of science, provided they maintain their reverence for Sacred Scripture and uphold its inerrancy.

I agree that people can have different opinions regarding science in a situation like this where there is no de fide Church teaching.  I think, however, that looking at the views of St. Bede and other medieval Catholic thinkers is helpful.  Many of us are aware of evil influences acting on and through modern science, creating some suspicion around its conclusions.  The science of medieval Christendom, however, developed in a time of Catholic influence.  Typically, the scientists of this time were clerics.  We even have examples of Doctors of the Church, like St. Thomas Aquinas, doing science.  For these men science was often an exercise of faith in God through studying His creation.

I find it very reassuring that the Ptolemaic model became the dominant cosmology during the Age of Faith (a name I prefer to "Middle Ages" which comes from the so-called "Enlightenment").  This means that I can accept that the earth is a sphere without worrying about the elements of corruption in  modern science.  I suspect that this legitimate concern about modern science is what leads some traditional Catholics to the flat earth position because they are unaware of the long history of men of faith accepting science that recognizes that the earth is a sphere.