No, it wasn’t; show me something from Denzinger’s, a Papal bull, condemnation from a local synod, regional council, or ecumenical council that says that heliocentrism was condemned as being contrary to Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, or the Deposit of Faith. A canonical verdict of an Inquisitorial court is not a doctrinal condemnation. Such verdicts are intrinsically reformable.
Friday, the 26th of the same month [February 1616], at the palace, the usual
residence of the said Most Illustrious Lord Cardinal Bellarmine, and in the
chambers of His Most Illustrious Lordship, and in the presence of the Reverend
Father Michelangelo Segizzi of Lodi, O. P., Commissary of the Holy Office, having
summoned the above‐mentioned Galileo before himself, the same Most Illustrious
Lord Cardinal [Bellarmine] warned Galileo that the above‐mentioned opinion was
erroneous and that he should abandon it; and thereafter, indeed immediately,
before me and witnesses, the Most Illustrious Lord Cardinal himself being also
present still, the aforesaid Father Commissary, in the name of His Holiness the
Pope and the whole Congregation of the Holy Office, ordered and enjoined the said
Galileo, who was himself still present, to abandon completely the above‐mentioned
opinion that the sun stands still at the center of the world and the earth moves, and
henceforth not to hold, teach, or defend it in any way whatever, either orally or in
writing; otherwise the Holy Office would start proceedings against him. The same
Galileo acquiesced in the injunction and promised to obey (Le Opere di Galileo
Galilei, Antonio Favaro, vol. 19, pp. 321‐322).
March 5, 1616
“Decree of the Sacred Congregation of the most Illustrious Cardinals of the Holy
Roman Church specially delegated by Our Most Holy Lord Pope Paul V and the
Holy Apostolic See to publish everywhere throughout the whole of
Christendom…And whereas it has also come to the knowledge of the said
Congregation that the Pythagorean doctrine – which is false and altogether
opposed to Holy Scripture – of the motion of the Earth and the immobility of the
Sun, which is also taught by Nicolaus Copernicus in De revolutionibus orbium
coelestium, and by Diego de Zúñiga [in his book] on Job, is now being spread
abroad and accepted by many – as may be seen from a certain letter of a Carmelite
Father, entitled Letter of the Rev. Father Paolo Antonio Foscarini, Carmelite, on the
Opinion of the Pythagoreans and of Copernicus concerning the Motion of the Earth,
and the Stability of the Sun, and the New Pythagorean System of the World, at
Naples, Printed by Lazzaro Scorriggio, 1615; wherein the said Father attempts to
show that the aforesaid doctrine of the immobility of the Sun in the center of the
world, and of the Earth’s motion, is consonant with truth and is not opposed to
Holy Scripture. Therefore, in order that this opinion may not insinuate itself any
further to the prejudice of the Catholic truth, the Holy Congregation has decreed
that the said Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium, and Diego de Zúñiga,
On Job, be suspended until they be corrected; but that the book of the Carmelite
Father, Paolo Antonio Foscarini, be altogether prohibited and condemned, and that
all other works likewise, in which the same is taught, be prohibited, as by this
present decree, it prohibits, condemns, and suspends them all respectively."
