“No s**t?” Gretchen asked.
“Though he’s oversimplifying a complex issue, your husband is correct. Cardinal Bellarmine, a Jesuit, helped the Pope to silence Galileo.”
“How’d they do that?” Gretchen asked.
“Bellarmine convinced the Pope to try Galileo in an ecclesiastical court. The tribunal found that he was highly suspect of heresy. They could have tortured or killed him, but they commuted his sentence to house arrest for the balance of his life.”
“Tony, your precious Jesuits did that?” Gretchen asked.
“Yep, but the Order is very different four hundred years later,” I suggested.
“I’m confused.” Gretchen said. “What difference does it make to the issue of the existence of God, if the sun revolves around the earth or the earth revolves around the sun?”
“It doesn’t,” I said. “An omnisc
