You're thinking, I suggest, of the Office of the Inquisition, whose procedures against Galileo were illegal by their own charter. They had no business privileging Ptolemaic cosmogony and opposing heliocentrism, nor had they done so in the case of Copernicus 80 years previously.
I was an academic turf war more hahn a theological dispute..
And it was settled a long time ago.
Not quite so useful to the Narrative now, I suppose.
Much appreciate the factual historical summary. It’s sad when generally upstanding institutions fall.