ROME (Reuter) - The Pope is expected to rehabilitate Galileo, who was condemned by the Inquisition for his view that the Earth revolved around the Sun. The Vatican said that the Pope would address a session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences tomorrow to end the work of a commission he set up 13 years ago to study the Galileo case.
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