After 350 Years, Vatican Says Galileo Was Right: It Moves
Once again, time is the inevitable determiner or rightness.
This may be “old news” but it’s never too late to remind ourselves that, in the end, that which is true will always rise to the surface and be clearly visible to all.
By ALAN COWELL,
Originally Published by: The New York Times, October 31, 1992
More than 350 years after the Roman Catholic Church condemned Galileo, Pope John Paul II is poised to rectify one of the Church's most infamous wrongs—the persecution of the Italian astronomer and physicist for proving the Earth moves around the Sun.