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Pope admits church wronged Galileo 300 years ago (from Reuter in Pisa) The Pope said yesterday that the church wronged Galileo when he was condemned by the Inquisition in 1633 for his views on the Solar System. Addressing professors at the university in Pisa where the astronomer taught that the Sun and not the Earth was the centre of the known universe, the Pope referred to him as “the very great Galileo Galilei”.