Galileo
GALILEO
SECULAR JOURNALS From TIME (7/12/68). “A Catholic prelate strongly hinted that the Vatican may be preparing to lift its condemnation of Galileo Galilei, the 17th century Italian physicist whom the Inquisition put under eight years house arrest for contending that the earth rotates around the sun. Galileo was forced to recant. The official censure has never been removed. An open admission of error by the Church would do much to improve relations between religion and science.”