[OLD REGGIE]

Eventually, he was brought before the Roman Inquisition and on June 16, 1633, he was censured for “suspicion of heresy” and was told to not even teach the “copernican theory” at all any longer. So censured for “suspicion of heresy” is not condemned for heresy. In fact, one can argue that it was disobedience that he was censured for.

Argue all you want. He lived out his life under house arrest, silenced, and blind.

[CTrent1564]

I am not arguing and I am well aware Galileo spent the last 3 to 4 years of his life under house arrest. I was challenging your incorrect statement that the Catholic Church taught “the sun revolved around the earth”. Again, the Catholic Church has never done so via a Church Council or Papal statement. The basic theory of the Universe before the Copernican challenge was the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic Theory, with some modifications. As the time of Galileo, the two leading astroners of the era were Brahe, who accepted the Aristolelian-Ptolemy system and Kepler, who agree with the Copernican Theory.

So it was a legitimate scientific debate and as I stated earlier, the Jesuits used their observatory in Rome, analyzed the data, and in agreed with Galileo’s conclusions regarding the Copernican theory.

In closing, the Catholic Church has never made a dogmatic statement regarding Science.