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| Paper: |
A Never Ending Story: The Pontifical Commission on the Galileo Case: A Critical Review\footnotemark |
| Volume: |
441, The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena VI |
| Page: |
99 |
| Authors: |
Sánchez de Toca, M. |
| Abstract: |
The Galileo Affair seems like a soap-opera: long, tedious and
repetitive. The pontifical commission created by John Paul II in 1981
to study the Galileo Affair, seems also to by affected by the same
syndrome. In this paper the following questions will be critically
examined: (a) the main facts concerning the Commission's work, (b) the
main objections to the Commission's achievements, and (c) possible
response to the objections. The analysis of the evidence shows the
difficulties under which the Commission operated all the time. But as
a whole, it had a positive impact on the Catholic Church and also in
helping to find a more balanced image of Galileo. |
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