Unfortunately, it seems that even the Catholic church seems bent on perpetuating what is essentially anti-clerical propaganda. The is a scholarly literature on the Galileo story that most people would find surprising.
Galileo was also a big mean jerk about being right when the Church was wrong.
But guess what? Galileo was right. The Church was wrong.
The Earth does move despite the poetic description of the foundations of the Earth being set not to be moved forever (which in context is obviously saying little more than “God made the Earth a safe and stable place for us to live”).
The point of this statement is not to promulgate anti-clerical propaganda; it is to ensure that similar mistakes of scriptural interpretation are not made that put the Church at odds with clearly observable reality; much in keeping with the long standing philosophy put forth by St. Thomas Aquinas.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidel if any Christian, not blessed with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.” St. Thomas Aquinas