Cardinal Carlo Martini says Church '200 years behind'

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8. More like 359 years behind the times...

In 1633 Galileo Galilei sentenced by the Inquisition to imprisonment, commuted to house arrest, for vehement suspicion of heresy; Catholic Church places Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems on the List of Prohibited Books. In 1992, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo affair was handled, and issued a declaration acknowledging the errors committed by the Catholic Church tribunal that judged the scientific positions of Galileo Galilei, as the result of a study conducted by the Pontifical Council for Culture. To this day the Catholic Church is not entirely clean on this topic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_galilei