Oppositions
The Catholic Church opposed Coperncus, Galileo, and Kepler's theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun itself rather than the Sun revolving around Earth and the Earth being the center of the universe. Galileo made many inventions that cease to be used to this day now. His most famous invention would be the telescope that has been altered from generations before.
Galileo's conflict with the Church — which ended up with confrontations with the Vatican on two separate occasions — would never have taken place if it were not for his undisturbed insisting on trying to prove that the Helio-centric theory proposed by Copernicus was a true physical system.
Another man had defied the law of the Bible that the Catholic Church so intensively went by. His name was Giordano Bruno. He was convicted for ranting about the Earth moving about the Sun. For this certain belief was kept in a dark dungeon for eight years and then taken out to a sunny market place and roasted to death by fire for all to see.
The Church was very cruel to the fact of people defying the Bible or even God himself. They wanted things to be the way they were in the beginning; They were to stuck on the past to understand the involvement it would have on their future as well as many others.
In 1992, Pope John Paul II declared that the ruling against Galileo was an error resulting from "tragic mutual incomprehension." The Vatican never admits to being wrong. This will go down in history as well as Galileo himself.