What happened after Galileo's controversy against the Church in 17th century? ?

Question

Galileo got into a controversy with the Church when he found that the Earth is not stationary and it actually orbits around the sun, which, at that time was against the biblical teaching which states that Earth was set as a foundation center and cannot be moved.

So anyway, did they changed that biblical teaching after that? (ever since Galileo was proven right).

Answer 1

the earth going around the earth was NEVER a Biblical teaching...that idea came from a Greek man about 4000 years earlier...it was a generally accepted fact...false none the less...but Galileo wasn't in trouble with the Church for his discovery...but because his discovery was revealed earlier than he had promise the church to release it...then he was put under house arrest with a Bishop...so he lived the lifestyle of a Bishop which was pretty nice at that time in history...

Answer 2

In the 1990's Pope John Paul 2 publicly declared that Galileo was right dear...

Answer 3

The ban on teaching that the earth revolves around the sun was lifted by Pope Benedict XIV in 1757, and in 1822, Pope Pius VII officially approved of texts teaching that the earth revolves around the sun.  

The teaching that the earth revolves around the sun was never treated by the Church as heresy except at Galileo's 1633 trial, and even there, there were obvious political motivations (i.e. Urban VIII feeling that his views were mocked by Galileo in his "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems").   Thus, while the Inquisition found Galileo to be guilty of "heresy" for saying the earth revolves around the sun and while books advocating heliocentrism were on the Index for roughly 120 years, it's not really fair to say that this was the Roman Catholic Church's doctrinal position, much less the biblical teaching on the matter: this was not a matter ever dealt with by a pope speaking ex cathedra or by a General Council to the best of my knowledge.  

Answer 4

The Catholic Church apologised about 300 years later, but if you read the apology carefully it seems to be saying that the Church is sorry that Galileo was right!