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To: <1/1,000,000th%
But seriously, as the Pope says, although Christians aspire to certain ideals, we don’t always meet them.

It was the Pope himself who agreed to the jailing of Galileo.

1,872 posted on 10/01/2008 8:57:38 AM PDT by LeGrande
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Galileo was never jailed.

He was put under house arrest after staying with the Tuscan ambassador, and then at the residence of the archbishop of Siena for a few months.

The Pope you’re thinking of is Urban VIII.


1,899 posted on 10/02/2008 5:33:42 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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