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The mother Church has made efforts during the past century to supersede their past failures to recognize scientific endeavors as applying to the real world, not the spiritual. Science need not be a threat to religion — no one has been burned at the stake by astronomers — but the Church has persecuted and executed scientists in the past, act the Church deeply regrets and has apologized for having done.

Names, dates, links?

You desperately need deprogramming from such nonsense. Please start here:

Introduction: Christianity's Central Role in the Conception and Development of Modern Science

How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization

Dr. Kopp — you wouldn't seriously entertain the idea of restoring the Roman Inquisition, would you?

That Holy Office had an international group of consultants (experienced scholars of theology and canon law) who advised it on specific questions, one of which was heliocentrism.

In 1616 these consultants gave their assessment of the propositions that the Sun is immobile and at the center of the universe and that the Earth moves around it (Heliocentric) judging both to be “foolish and absurd in philosophy,” and the first to be “formally heretical” and the second “at least erroneous in faith” in theology.

Copernicus's De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books. Galileo Galilei was admonished about his heliocentrism and in 1633 he was tried and condemned for a “grave suspicion of heresy”. All his works were banned.

Among the subjects of this Inquisition were Francesco Patrizi, Fra Giordano Bruno, Tommaso Campanella, Girolamo Cardano, Cesare Cremonini, and Galileo Galilei. Of these, only Fra Bruno was executed, burned at the stake; Galileo died under house arrest, and Campanella was imprisoned for twenty-seven years.

I appreciate your providing recommended reading but I assure you I agree whole heartedly with the title of the second, for if the Roman Catholic Church had never existed there would be no Western Civilization as we know it today.

That does not mean the Church's past behavior never occurred and I need deprogramming! Doctor, really, that was an insulting thing to say.