What is "the subject" as you see it?
You apparently presume the overall discussion is intended to be essentially or principally theological. Clearly, this has not been and is not presently the case. While theology is certainly superior to all of the natural sciences, it is clearly not the only science.
There is no doubt that the overall discussion with regard to geocentrism and heretical heliocentrism is theological. There is a history of accusations against the Church since heliocentrism was said to have been proven by science. Fr Roberts showed in his booklet that papal infallibility was proven wrong by its 1616 decree against heliocentrism. Hans Kung said the same. The Catholic Church has been ridiculed by the lie that its defence of revelation was proven wrong.
Here are some quotes;
‘For over three and a half centuries, the trial of Galileo has been an anti-Catholic bludgeon wielded to show the Church as the enemy of enlightenment, freedom of thought and scientific advancement. In the cultural wars of our own day, Galileo has become an all-encompassing trump-card, played whenever the discussion is over science, abortion, gαy rights, legalised pornography, or simply as a legitimate reason for blatant anti-Catholicism.’ --- Robert Lockwood: The Galileo Affair, Position Papers, May 2001.
Voltaire wrote: ‘Miserable human beings, whether in green robes, turbans, black robes or surplices, cloaks and neckbands, never seek to use authority when it is a question only of reason; or consent to be scoffed at throughout the centuries as the most impertinent of all men, and to suffer public hatred as the most unjust. A hundred times has one spoken to you of the insolent absurdity with which you condemned Galileo, and I speak to you for the hundred and first, and I hope you will keep the anniversary of it for ever; I desire that [the following] be engraved on the door of your Holy Office: “Here seven cardinals, assisted by minor brethren, had the master of thought in Italy thrown into prison at the age of seventy; made him fast on bread and water because he instructed the human race, and because they were ignorant.”’ --- Selected and Translated by H. I. Woolf, New York: Knopf, 1924.
The following comment came from an atheist in 1879 reveals!
‘If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the Bible was introduced among them, as they do now, there never could have been one believer in the doctrine of [divine] inspiration. If the writers of the various parts of the bible had known as much about the sciences as is now known by every intelligent man, the Bible never could have been written. It was produced by ignorance and has been believed and defended by its author. It has lost power in the proportion that man has gained knowledge. A few years ago, this Bible was appealed to in the settlement of all scientific questions; but now, even the clergy confess that in such matters, it has ceased to speak with the voice of authority. For the establishment of facts, the word of man is now considered far better than the word of God. In the world of science, Jehovah was superseded by Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler. All that God told Moses, admitting the entire account to be true, is dust and ashes compared to the discoveries of Descartes, Laplace, Humboldt. In matters of fact, the Bible has ceased to be regarded as a standard. Science has succeeded in breaking the chains of theology. Some years ago, Science endeavored to show that it was not inconsistent with the Scriptures. The tables have been turned, and now, Religion is endeavoring to prove that the Bible is not inconsistent with science. The standard has been changed’ --- Some Mistakes of Moses.
That is what Catholicism was accused of after the heliocentric fraud was accepted by popes.
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