
Originally Posted by
unsay_ngalan_nimo
Yes, Galileo was not excommunicated, he stand on trial for heresy that is why he have to recant. isnt recanting simmilar to renewal of obiedience and statement of repentance which are resolutions for excommunication.
No. He wasn't excommunicated, so whatever recantation he made was
NOT for resolution of excommunication. Any "similarity" ends there.
Was heliocentrism declared a heresy? The majority of the tribunal thought it was heretical, but that was an immediately controversial decision since, in fact,
the Catholic Church NEVER had any such dogma that declared heliocentrism as heretical. Church tribunals -- even papal tribunals -- do
NOT have the authority to define doctrine/dogma. That's why the apology was made.
The tribunal clearly overstepped its authority in that it was effectively declaring something as heretical when it was not.
You disagree? Kindly show me a single ex cathedra papal statement or a declaration by a Church Council on heliocentrism. In case you don't know, those are the two formal Church authorities that can define Church doctrine. The only other one is the "ordinary magisterium", but that involves the bishops all over the world teaching the same thing (I am, of course, oversimplifying the concept). Papal tribunals, courts, cardinals, and the body that tried Galileo, do
NOT have such authority.
The Galileo Affair
By George Sim Johnston
http://www.catholiceducation.org/art...ld/wh0005.html
Galileo was finally condemned by the Holy Office as “vehemently suspected of heresy.” The choice of words was debatable, as Copernicanism had never been declared heretical by either the ordinary or extraordinary Magisterium of the Church...
Galileo's condemnation was certainly unjust, but in no way impugns the infallibility of Catholic dogma. Heliocentricism was never declared a heresy by either ex cathedra pronouncement or an ecumenical council. And as the Pontifical Commission points out, the sentence of 1633 was not irreformable. Galileo's works were eventually removed from the Index and in 1822, at the behest of Pius VII, the Holy Office granted an imprimatur to the work of Canon Settele, in which Copernicanism was presented as a physical fact and no longer as an hypothesis.
Case closed. If you still want to make this discredited point, you had better find a better example.