“Therefore . . . , invoking the most holy name of our Lord Jesus Christ and of His Most Glorious Mother Mary, We pronounce this Our final sentence: We pronounce, judge, and declare, that you, the said Galileo . . . have rendered yourself vehemently suspected by this Holy Office of heresy... it is Our pleasure that you be absolved, provided that with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, in Our presence, you abjure, curse, and detest, the said error and heresies, and every other error and heresy contrary to the Catholic and Apostolic Church of Rome.”
In the final case against Galileo Galilei, the father of physics, philosophy, astronomy and astrology, the Church found him guilty of heresy and his works were denounced. Galileo’s beliefs and discoveries were the cause of the accusations against him, and the reason he had to abjure his “heresies”. For a period of time, Galileo was able to continue his studies; however he was not able to reconcile his religion with his church, and ended......
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