Some years ago, the Pope accepted that Earth does revolve around the Sun and issued a rare apology for what the Church had done to Galileo. The Catholic Church recanted.

But many of his teachings went against the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church, which was extremely powerful at the time. The Church believed Earth was the centre of the universe, but Galileo ...

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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 ... remained a loyal Catholic throughout ...

GOOD WORK: Donatella Versace has been recognized for her philanthropic work by The Galileo Foundation, an organization that supports international charitable initiatives by the Catholic Church.

During his speech, the pope -- then Cardinal Ratzinger -- quoted an Austrian philosopher Paul Feyerabend, saying, "At the time of Galileo, the church remained more loyal (or faithful) to reason ...

Leonardo da Vinci pioneered the study of human anatomy and Galileo Galilei rocked the ... Liberated from the exclusive grasp of the Catholic Church, education filtered down to the upwardly mobile ...