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 ...

A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.