Yes, the Catholic Church was supreme in everything. They knew through dogma demonstrated by the Bible, that the earth was central to everything, and Galileo's belief that the earth revolved around the sun was heresy and he was so convicted by the Inquistition. He was imprisoned for having such thoughts and trying to tell the world about them. Is that the kind of disregard for the Church's moral authority you are referring to? And you wonder why intelligent people question some of the Church's dogma today? Do you approve of how the Church has handled scientific inquiry such as that of Galileo?
Do you understand what Dogma is and consequently how absurd your assertion that the Church taught the Earth central to everything let alone anything?
Let's see -you can not provide anything but "feelings" couched in moral relative arguments in regards to your support of the homosexual disorder being something to be accepted and tolerated as at worst innocuous and not meriting legitimate discrimination... Now you wish to attempt to bash the Catholic Church using the same "free thinking" moral relative methodology -your hidden motive (assuming the obvious will once again be denied)?
A suggested reading assignment: The Galileo Affair
SMALL EXCERPT:Unjust Condemnation
Galileo's condemnation was certainly unjust, but in no way impugns the infallibility of Catholic dogma. Heliocentricism was never declared a heresy by either ex cathedra pronouncement or an ecumenical council. And as the Pontifical Commission points out, the sentence of 1633 was not irreformable. Galileo's works were eventually removed from the Index and in 1822, at the behest of Pius VII, the Holy Office granted an imprimatur to the work of Canon Settele, in which Copernicanism was presented as a physical fact and no longer as an hypothesis.
You may be an "expert" on moral relatively arguing in support of the homosexualization of society; however, it would appear you are way out of your league in attempting to disparage the Church. You may want to reconsider this latest tact as well potentially fruitless?
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