When Galileo published his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun in 1610, he stirred up controversy with the Roman Catholic who chastised him for heresy. The Church taught the world revolved around Earth and not the sun. Galileo went on to theorize that waves and comets also proved our solar orbit and the Pope sentenced him to house arrest where Galileo lived until he died. On October 31, 1992, Pope John Paul II made a 350-year about-face and admitted Galileo was right.
