During his speech, the pope -- then Cardinal Ratzinger -- quoted an Austrian philosopher Paul Feyerabend, saying, "At the time of Galileo, the church remained more loyal (or faithful) to reason ...

To Galileo, the moons proved that not everything in space circled the Earth, and therefore our planet was not the absolute center of the universe, as the Church maintained the Bible had it.

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The Church believed Earth was the centre of the universe, but Galileo would eventually prove otherwise. Galileo soon developed the strongest telescope the world had ever seen, and would prove the ...

The drama of Galileo's trial by the Inquisition in 1633 has cast him as a renegade astronomer who scoffed at the Bible and drew fire from a Church blind to reason. Indeed, the myth of the martyred ...

GOOD WORK: Donatella Versace has been recognized for her philanthropic work by The Galileo Foundation, an organization that supports international charitable initiatives by the Catholic Church.

Galileo lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy, written in 139AD, was still being used by the Church as “evidence” and “confirmation” for ...

Jupiter had its own moons, four of them (now called the Galilean Moons), revolving around the gas giant in defiance of everything the Church held sacred. In 1633, Galileo found himself on trial ...