Did modern Church apologized to Galileo Galilei?

Question

In 1633 Galileo Galilei wrote his abjuration for stating and teaching his dicovery that the Earth moves around the Sun. Such outlandish idea contradicted the religious beliefs that the Earth is the center of the universe. Did modern or any church for that matter did anything to apologized to Galileo Galilei? Does anyone know?

Answer 1

Yes, it did.

The decisions in the Galileo case were disciplinary or procedural, not doctrinal matters at all, even though some individuals in the Church at the time thought they were. The infallibility of the Church attaches to its officially proclaimed dogmas, such as Christ’s two natures or Mary’s Immaculate Conception. These are matters of the highest authority. The Church cannot be wrong in these matters. But in matters of empirical science or anything that is not what is called de fide, the Church can and has made many reversals. If these had been matters of dogma, the Church could not have reversed itself.

The the pursuit of knowledge is always a humbling process. And that is good, because humility is one of the greatest virtues.
Peace and every blessing!

Answer 2

History tells us that there has many terrible things done by men in the name of Jesus. However we must ask ourselves if these things that were done were actually God's will. To be honest most of these things were motivated by the twisted hearts of men and their actions actually broke the heart of the God the claimed to be serving.

Galileo may very well have been wronged by the church but what would be the point of apologizing to a man who has been dead for over three hundred years? Can any healing come from doing this? I do not think so but if you need an apologized let me be the the first say that i am sorry that the church has done many things in the past have hurt people. On behave of the body of Christ I ask that you might forgive us. The church is filled with men and men fail, fall short, and unfortunatley hurt people but the God that we serve never does these things. He loves all people with a perfectly love that my mere words are insufficent to explain. Jesus loves you.

Before I close I want to know if you have ever heard of the anthropic principle. To be fair to the ancient church scientists today have ever inlcreasingly grabbed onto this anthropic principle. This principle simply points out that not only the earth but the entire universe seems to be crafted with sustaining of life on earth as its purpose. So in a way earth seems to be the center of the universe. Praise Jesus.

Answer 3

It was not for the theory of heliocentrism that Galileo was reprimanded (if you can call house arrest at the luxurious Mediterranean villa of his closest friend a "reprimand"). Other scientists of the time were proposing similar theories, and incurred no penalties. It was for Galileo's published statement that the order of the universe might have developed without supernatural intervention. No, the modern Church has not apologized to Galileo because (1) the modern Church didn't do anything to Galileo, and (2) Galileo is dead.
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Answer 4

Yes, in 1992, fully 359 years too late. Rather sad, huh?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair

THE ORIGINAL:
"The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith." -- Catholic Church's decision against Galileo Galilei

Answer 5

A polish scientist tried to publish that even before but nobody would except it and if he would spread what he thought he would have gotten murdered. People probably knew much more than we think back then, but what limited that information to come through is the lack of freedom of speech

Answer 6

I believe that was the Roman Catholic Chruch that did that. And not the Inspirational Chruch of the New Testament, scripted in the pages of the New Testament, by the Inspiration of God the Holy Spirit.

Answer 7

The astronomical Telescope was first made in 1611, the same year as the Holy Bible, just so you know there was a sign in heaven...

The first revelation was when they seen a Jupiter moon called [Titan], it kept changing positions, which caused the discovery... In 1534 King Henry the 8th kicked that same church of which you speak, out of the English Kingdom.
If Galileo was smart he would of gone away from the Catholics in the first place.

Therefore for his lack of knowledge to where the true church was. He gets no apology from me, nor should he from any one else, Because it was his own fault of not receiving the revelation of where to take his discovery. Jesus told us to be careful to whom we give our pearls of knowledge..
[Matthew 7:6]
[Only a moron would give a thumbs down to that answer lol]
[oldguy63 is right also]

Furthermore, In the week of January 7, 1610 Galileo discovered three of Jupiter's four largest satellites (moons): Io, Europa, and Callisto. He discovered Ganymede four nights later. He noted that the moons would appear and disappear periodically, an observation which he attributed to their movement behind Jupiter, and concluded that they were orbiting the planet. He made additional observations of them in 1620. Galileo defended heliocentrism, and claimed it was not contrary to those Scripture passages. He took Augustine's position on Scripture: not to take every passage literally, particularly when the scripture in question is a book of poetry and songs, not a book of instructions or history. The writers of the Scripture wrote from the perspective of the terrestrial world, and from that vantage point the sun does rise and set. In fact, it is the earth's rotation which gives the impression of the sun in motion across the sky. By 1616 the attacks on Galileo had reached a head, and he went to Rome to try to persuade the Church authorities not to ban his ideas. Galileo was ordered to stand trial on suspicion of heresy in 1633. Galileo was required to recant his heliocentric ideas. He was ordered imprisoned; the sentence was later commuted to house arrest. His offending Dialogue was banned...In 1741, when Pope Benedict XIV authorized the publication of Galileo's complete scientific works (a censored edition had been published in 1718), and in 1758 the general prohibition against heliocentrism was removed from the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. On 31 October 1992, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo affair was handled, as the result of a study conducted by the Pontifical Council for Culture.

Answer 8

Sort of, in 1992. The Pope didn't flat out apologize, but he did express regret. Nice to see the church is so quick to admit fault.

Answer 9

Yes, and it only took 360 years or so..

Which means we'll see them accept evolution around the start of the 23rd century.

Answer 10

Yeah...Don't confuze the Catholic Church with other Christians...

The Catholics will admit their wrong everyone once in a hundred years...

Real Christians never admit their wrong!!!