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1. Guess how this'll turn out with Doogue, Collins & co in charge ... don't expect to hear/see facts presented with balance - just another opportunity to bash the Catholic church and rate well.

   Posted By: Chris Saidou

2. Chris: Got a problem with the wrongs committed in the name of your religion? How do you deal with the auto de fe? Infallible, eh?

   Posted By: edwin wilson

3. Edwin, read Kamen's book on the Spanish Inquisition before referring to the auto de fe situation.
   Living as we do in a Protestant English tradition, we have had fed to us that perspective in our popular culture. The Spanish Inquisition was much more complex than commonly known.

   Posted By: Desmond

4. What a rogues gallery. All desirous of the besmirching of the reputation and teaching authority of the Church.
   Though some of them unashamedly continue to make a living as ABC hacks off the Church they so publicly deride.

   Posted By: Peter

5. Edwin: Of course I have a problem with the wrongs committed by the church; Me and you as well.
   In this case however, it ought to be recognised that the ABC is the vehicle for bigots and the un-informed and your questions are thus easily answered and have been by those who are informed ... go to this site if you care ...
   http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/
   

   Posted By: Chris Saidou

6. What a farce, and an even stupider article about it. The majority of the "judges" are non-Catholic, a couple of them are nominal Catholics notorious for propagating heresies which would have horrified Galileo, and apparently only two of them have any education at all in Catholic theology. How on earth are they supposed to judge whether Galileo was guilty of "being vehemently suspected of heresy"?
   Contrary to the nonsensical Catholic-bashing final declaration that "in 1992 the church finally accepted that Galileo might be right", the whole Catholic world has accepted that the earth orbits the Sun ever since the Jesuit astronomers became the first to prove it, 100 years after Galileo died. Since then there has been NO "debate", intense or not, among any Catholics nor among any genuine non-Catholic "scientists, historians, philosophers and theologians over whether the condemnation of Galileo was right or wrong".
   

   Posted By: Peter G

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