Article: The leaning tower of truth: round up the usual suspects. (condemnation of Galileo by Catholic Church)

Article: A sorry business With his unprecedented apology in 1992 for the ...
The Independent - London;  December 19, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... It all began in 1992 when Pope John Paul II finally admitted the Church had been wrong 349 years earlier to silence Galileo for saying that the Earth moved round ... obscurantism and (in its condemnation of Galileo) its hostility to science. Such ...

Article: The Church and Galileo.(Retrying Galileo, ...
Renaissance Quarterly;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... elected Pope John Paul II expressed the ... famous trial of Galileo. He seemed to ... far in silencing Galileo. Key participants ... beginnings of John Paul and returned instead ... intentions of John Paul and the Galileo Commission. Meanwhile ...

Article: Galileo's Mistake: The Archeology of a Myth.(Book Review)
Catholic Insight;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... of Scripture. As Pope John Paul II has said, Galileo, a sincere believer ... George Sim Johnston, "The Galileo Affair, Princeton N.J. Sceptre Press). Pope John Paul II tells us that from the Galileo affair we can learn a ...

Article: Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992
The Catholic Historical Review;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... including, Pope John Paul II's "rehabilitation" of Galileo in 1993.There is ... rehabilitation" of Galileo at that time, according ... following. Pope John Paul II accepted Poupard ... summarizing the work of the Galileo Commission, but ...

Article: Vatican's Galileo-friendly astronomers get a rare close-up ...
AP Worldstream;  August 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... after he became pontiff in 1978, John Paul created a commission to review Galileo's condemnation. After the commission reported back, John Paul declared in 1992 that the ruling against Galileo was an error resulting from tragic ...

Article: CHURCH ADMITS IT WRONGED GALILEO.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  October 31, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... Catholic Church condemned Galileo for teaching that the ... around the sun, Pope John Paul II is poised to rectify ... 1984, it said that Galileo had been wrongfully ... More recently, Pope John Paul II himself has said ... The theory that Galileo offered his proof for ...

Article: 'Galileo's Battle for the Heavens'; A Tale of Truth, ...
The Washington Post;  October 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... said. "We have a view of Galileo as a modern person, and he ... is a myth." Eventually, Galileo's arguments for the Copernican ... world works. In 1992, Pope John Paul II issued an apology and lifted ... the early 17th-century, Galileo was a man under attack by the ...