Readers' blog: Church just wanted to silence Galileo

In his remarks of June 27 (Irish Examiner, Letters) about former President Mary McAleese and the Galileo affair (McAleese said that the Church quietly abandoned its criticism of Galileo for teaching that the Earth orbits the sun), William Reville claims that “in order to properly understand what happened, the story must be told in the context of the historical times”.

He fails his own test.