ArchivedPius IX declares Pope is Christ in the Flesh!RomeSweetHome wrote:Aieno Wrote
Mean were brought before the inquisition based on teaching the earth is not the center of the universe. That is a matter of faith as pronounced by the POPE.
Get real. The Pope is far from infallible even when speaking "ex cathedra".
The matter of the Earth being circular, flat, square, near the sun or in the sun, is not a matter of Spiritual faith.
So this has nothing to do with the Pope being infallible!
That was the Popes personal opinion. I am sure he had a lot more that didn't make sence.
So men and women were brought before the inquisition based on one man's opinions? That make the matter even worse when some ego-maniacle man authorizes imprisoning people based on a matter of opinion. Maffeo Barberini was an accomplished man of letters, who published several volumes of verse. Upon Galileo' s return to Florence, in 1610, Barberini came to admire Galileo' s intelligence and sharp wit. During a court dinner, in 1611, at which Galileo defended his view on floating bodies, Barberini supported Galileo against Cardinal Gonzaga. From this point, their patron-client relationship flourished until it was undone in 1633. Upon Barberini' s ascendance of the papal throne, in 1623, Galileo came to Rome and had six interviews with the new Pope. It was at these meetings that Galileo was given permission to write about the Copernican theory, as long as he treated it as a hypothesis. After the publication of Galileo' s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World , in 1632, the patronage relationship was broken. It appears that the Pope never forgave Galileo for putting the argument of God's omnipotence (the argument he himelf had put to Galileo in 1623) in the mouth of Simplicio, the staunch Aristotelian whose arguments had been systematically destroyed in the previous 400-odd pages. At any rate, the Pope resisted all efforts to have Galileo pardoned.
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Pe ... _VIII.html
| View Parent Message View dfilename Return Home |