Who was Pope when Galileo Galilei suffered at the hands of Roman inquisitors?
Innocent IV was Pope when the church condemned Galileo Galilei for claiming that the earth revolved around the sun. Pope Innocent served his papacy from 1243 to 1254. He aggressively applied the principle that “the end justifies the means”. Because of his actions, the Inquisition represented the darkest period of Holy See Church history. Pope Innocent IV approved the use of torture to extract confessions of heresy.
During the tenure of Pope Innocent IV, it is shocking to learn about the deranged instruments of torture that were used on so many innocent people One of the most famous people to suffer at the hands of Roman Catholic Church inquisitors was Galileo Galilei, the Italian scientist and scholar who's pioneering observations laid the foundation for modern physics.
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Audrey Thorson
None of these answers are correct. I knew that when I answered and chose Pope Urban VI. It should have shown Pope Urban VIII.
Sarah Hearn-vonFoerster
That is impossible, as Galilio lived in the 1600s & Innocent IV in the 1200s. ????
wbgaither
I disagree with your answer. You do not include the correct answer. It is Pope Urban VIII.
Ken Putnam
Nope 1633, the Pope was Urban VIII
Barbara Jablonski
No correct answer is offered. Correct answer is Pope Urban VIII.
Steve Heady
Wow! This one is so way off. How did this question ever get published on this site.
john duckett
This has to be the worst question/answer I have encountered. As others have stately, all of the answers are incorrect, and then to supply an explanation that totally contradicts itself is extraordinary.
Paul Greenslade
Ding dong - wrong!! The inquisition was 1633 not in the 1200s!
Beau Shilkraut
Sarah Hearn-vonFoerster, that's what I thought also. Wonder how this one made it thru review.
Margaret O'Neill
I guessed at this.. but see by the many answers here I was wrong!
Albeck1994
e11-hitman you really made a monumental mistake on this one . You are only 400 years our on the dates. How did you even do the write up without laughing
Albeck1994
Audrey Thorson, exactly
Stevie G
How has the question got through Galilio lived from 15 Feb 1564 - 08 Jan 1642 (age 77) not 1243 to 1254.
Gery Tillmanns
Haha. Another wrong question?
Robert May
According to two sources it was Urban the VIII
Cece Chance
Does anyone check these questions before they are published? Galileo and Innocent IV didn't even live in the same century! Urban VIII was pope when Galileo was convicted of heresy in 1633. And, due to his age he was only placed under house arrest.
Rick Anderau
Verbatim from Wikipedia below! Pope Urban VIII is correct. You guys are wrong this time - none if your answers are correct!
The Galileo affair was a sequence of events, beginning around 1610,[1] culminating with the trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633 for his support of heliocentrism (Italian: il processo a Galileo Galilei).[2]
In 1610, Galileo published his Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger), describing the surprising observations that he had made with the new telescope, namely the phases of Venus and the Galilean moons of Jupiter. With these observations he promoted the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus (published in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543). Galileo's initial discoveries were met with opposition within the Catholic Church, and in 1616 the Inquisition declared heliocentrism to be formally heretical. Heliocentric books were banned and Galileo was ordered to refrain from holding, teaching or defending heliocentric ideas.[3]
Galileo went on to propose a theory of tides in 1616, and of comets in 1619; he argued that the tides were evidence for the motion of the Earth. In 1632 Galileo, now an old man, published his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which implicitly defended heliocentrism, and was immensely popular. Responding to mounting controversy over theology, astronomy and philosophy, the Roman Inquisition tried Galileo in 1633 and found him "vehemently suspect of heresy", sentencing him to indefinite imprisonment. Galileo was kept under house arrest until his death in 1642.
wbgaither
You need to rephrase your question.