A Quote by – Cardinal Roberto Bellarmine

Topic of this Quote:

Author Name:

Cardinal Roberto Bellarmine

Born As:

Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino

Other Names:

Born:

04 Oct 1542

Died:

17 Sep 1621
Richard J Blackwell - 1991. Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible. Notre Dame.

The Vatican archives contain an unsigned copy of a more strongly worded formal injunction purporting to have been served on Galileo shortly after Bellarmine's admonition, and threatening him with imprisonment if he had refused to obey. However, whether this injunction was ever served on Galileo is a subject of scholarly disagreement.                          
                          
On the orders of the pope, Paul V, Cardinal Bellarmine summoned Galileo Galilei, notified him of a forthcoming decree of the Congregation of the Index condemning the Copernican doctrine of the mobility of the Earth and the immobility of the Sun, and forced him to abandon it. Galileo agreed.