And there's a chain of creation reaching up to heaven. As a young man, Galileo toyed briefly with the idea of becoming a priest. Instead he entered the University of Pisa as a medical student in 1581.

Change in the Roman Catholic Church has come from the people — people like Galileo, according to a gay priest who was fired from his position at Seton Hall University earlier this year.

In 1600, the year Galileo’s first daughter was born, the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy, having suggested, among much else, that the universe was infinite ...

The book made him famous, but offended a Muslim priest who ordered the doctor to ... of his book were accompanied for good measure. Galileo (1564-1642) The Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo ...

The drama of Galileo's trial by the Inquisition in 1633 has cast him as a renegade astronomer who scoffed at the Bible and drew fire from a Church blind to reason. Indeed, the myth of the martyred ...

Almost at the same time a loud-voiced and unpopular Dominican priest made an outspoken attack against all mathematicians and Galileo supporters. Galileo saw the danger and hurried to Rome.

A judge in southern Chile sentenced a Catholic priest to recite seven psalms daily ... that his sentencing decision was a tribute to Galileo Galilei, the Renaissance scientist who received a ...

Galileo proposed an idea that we now take for granted: that the earth rotates around the sun. This idea (sometimes called "heliocentricity") had already been suggested as a hypothesis by ...

Minnich Prize for his work investigating the nuances of the Galileo affair. The Minnich Prize is given for the best article published in the Catholic Historical Review, a quarterly journal of the ...