In fact, the Church was not as hard on Galileo as is commonly thought. The controversy rose and fell over the decades, Galileo growing ever more certain that the earth goes around the sun but having many other things to think about as well, while various ecclesiastical theologians and scientists argued about the case. .. The Church never taught as doctrine the geocentric cosmology everywhere assumed in the scripture, and had in fact reformed her calendar according to the findings of the heliocentric Copernicus. It was 70 years later under pressure, and in a highly political stew, that Catholics were forbidden to hold and defend heliocentricism, though they were allowed to teach it.

— Creator and Creation by Mary O. Daly (Page 50)