THE cause célèbre of the Inquisition v. Galileo Galilei has often found mention in the columns of NATURE. In every recrudescence of the old controversy between science and religion it is as ...

On a cold January day in 1642, Galileo Galilei took his last breath ... heresy for challenging the Church's geocentric dogma. The Inquisition demanded silence. He was forced to recant his findings ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics ... a Dominican in some way unknown secured a copy and sent it to the Inquisition at Rome. Almost at the same time a loud-voiced and unpopular ...

Established almost 500 years ago, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is no longer "the Inquisition" — rather, its main focus is handing down the teachings of the apostles ...