Feast day of Galileo, who died 1/8/1642. He was condemned as a heretic for defending the Copernican theory "which is false and contrary to the Sacred and Divine Scriptures, that the sun is the center of the world...and that the earth moves and is not the center of the world."
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For many years Galileo's ordeal was a blot on the conscience of the church. In 1992 Pope JPII issued a declaration absolving Galileo of heresy and acknowledging errors in the church's judgment--attributed to a deficient understanding of the nature and authority of scripture.
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The question lingers: How many other solemn declarations will one day be subject to reconsideration? There remains a tendency to claim that the church, as it was once said of the earth, cannot move. But as Galileo said: "Nevertheless, it moves." amzn.to/2FiDLBB
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He mostly got the axe for making fun of the most powerful man in Europe, who had been his close friend before the ordeal. Galileo would’ve been fine, just supporting heliocentrism. He got house arrest, mostly just for back stabbing the Pope, in his book.