With ignorance so blatant, it's amazing you expect to be taken seriously here. Do some research on Copernicus then come back and report to the class. While you're gone, you may want to check into the Church's history of support for all of the sciences...
In 1633 Galileo was convicted by the Catholic Church of heresy for following Copernicus’ theories instead of following Aristotle. Again, this is all documented historic fact that the modern day Roman Catholic Church no longer disputes.
That you two clowns are ignorant of Pope John Paul 2 and his speech at the Roman Observatory of November 4, 1992 speaks much more to your ignorance than to mine.
Or do you say that the Pope was wrong when he said:
“Thanks to his intuition as a brilliant physicist and by relying on different arguments, Galileo, who practically invented the experimental method, understood why only the sun could function as the centre of the world, as it was then known, that is to say, as a planetary system. The error of the theologians of the time, when they maintained the centrality of the Earth, was to think that our understanding of the physical world’s structure was, in some way, imposed by the literal sense of Sacred Scripture.”
Yeah, but you two keep on circling the wagons. It’s fun to watch.
The Catholic Church, after JPII appointed a committee to study the issue for thirteen years, "forgave" Galileo in 1992.
And it took them until October 31, 1992 for decide that Galileo was not guilty of heresy and forgive him because why?
And if they had really supported him from the beginning, why did they need to *forgive* him? Why wait over three hundred years to forgive him for something you claim the Church supported him in?