Well, I can see from some of the posts below that indeed Gloria TV has been infiltrated by non-believers.

I don't know if Crusader himself is one such infiltrator, but I think he makes the error that is actually not uncommon amongst Catholics--being more against the devil than for God. It is enough to tell others of these abominations, so they are prepared. There is no call whatsoever to scandalize others by showcasing the work. E.g., it is charitable to warn others against directors such as Stanley Kubrick, and give a brief plot of Eyes Wide Shut as an example of why he should be avoided (it may also serve as a stark morality tale, since the man died before he made another film). But, it would obviously defeat the purpose of warning others to give too many details about the film or to show it others....DUH!

I've written the editors, perhaps now I should write Crusader, but it is high time this vile video came down!

Master Woods, come now, it wouldn't have hurt to have mentioned that Mikolaj Kopernik was a priest!

Dr. Woods definitely gives us all the facts one needs to answer non-believers, but another argument is that the proper way to view the incident is that it wasn't dispute between the Church and non-Churchmen, but amongst Churchmen.

Galileo was struck so hard in part because i) He was a proud, haughty man and hated by all his colleagues. And it wasn't because he was always right. Galileo ridiculed a Jesuit priest for hypothesizing that the tides were effected by the moon saying it was a stupid, superstitious theory. He posited instead the view that Woods describes succinctly in the second part (a view which contradicted his own natal theory of inertia). This is a squabble possible only amongst colleagues, not opposing factions.

ii)His forays into theology, of which revisional biblical interpretation (which Woods also mentioned) was only a part. His own patroness (the Prince of Medici's mother) denounced him for it. Anyone who picks up one of Galileo's works (like the dialogue mentioned in part 3) will find some very strange material that has nothing to do with science in it. This was the case in point that provoked Cardinal St. Robert Bellarmine's worry. Again, such a disruption could only occur within the same spiritual group.

Even without knowing the facts, it's ridiculous the way revisionist historians try to claim Catholics as one of their own in some way, because they got into trouble on certain levels with Churchmen.

Thank you, Dr. Woods for your excellent, well-balanced, truly liberal exposition of history! You have a superb knack for recovering pearls out of muddy waters.

Incoherent rambling as well as heretical. Well, one would hope that it would have little chance to seduce *anyone* with those factors standing against the man. He's as devoid of eloquence as he is of truth.