On this day... (1983) - Democratic Underground

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On this day... (1983)

May 9 1983

The infallible Pope John Paul II retracts the Catholic Church's condemnation of astronomer Galileo Galilei, issued in 1633 by the infallible Pope Urban VIII. The Church had convicted the scientist of heresy, sentenced him to house arrest, and forced him to recant central scientific truths. In the end, this error only took 350 years to correct.

Is there any push... any at all... for a national day of shame/repentance/apology by the conservatives? Or do conservatives simply don't like the subject brought up and have it be related to their beliefs, and we happily oblige? (We're the polite ones!)

Kisses XXOOXX
Jen

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