from an official capacity, the catholic church has never contradicted itself

I have no problem sticking with Galileo as it provides adequate contradictions for my argument. COUNTERPOINTS: I. You have claimed that Galileo was tried for teaching and believing in the geocentric model - this is untrue, it was indeed the heliocentric model that he taught and believed. If he was proposing a geocentric model at the time this would not have conflicted with the church. POINTS: II. It is true that within a hundred years of his death his Dialogue was taken off the ban list - but it's messier than that. Imprimatur was indeed granted in 1741 to a complete edition of Galileo's works. But the Dialogue was still on the Index at this stage and this Padua edition was only allowed on condition that the edition adhered to the changes imposed by the local Inquisitor. The edition therefore excludes several of the shorter (but particularly crucial) works and accompanies the Dialogue with the 1633 judgement and two prefaces approving of Galileo's recantation. Numerous marginal postils were also edited or omitted so as to make the work more hypothetical. The Dialogue, together with De revolutionibus, also remained on the Index when it next appeared in 1757, though this edition drops the general ban on books promoting Copernicanism. There is, however, some evidence that Benedict wanted to remove them at this stage; from Heilbron's The Sun in the Church (Harvard, 1999; 2001, p208). No doubt an effort from official capacity was made in order to protect the geocentric doctrines of the church. In 1992 Pope John Paul II officially conceded that the Earth was not stationary - it revolved around the sun. To concede means to "Admit that something is true or valid after first denying or resisting it", herein lies the contradiction. Officially, the Catholic Church teaches absolutism (such as St Aquinas saying that all physics shall adhere to scripture and all scripture to physics). Therefore if the Catholic concedes any fact that it once held to be false, it undermines its position and claim of absolute doctrine, which it requires in order to justify its dogma. III. This is from Consultant's Report on Copernicanism (February 24, 1616) which was produced by catholic theologians who were under strict guidance of the official capacity (that is to say that there positions would not make sense if at some time the catholic church had been official condemning of heliocentricism (which now they are not): A decree of February 19, 1616, summoned Qualifiers of the Holy Office and required them to give their opinion on the two following propositions in Galileo's work on the solar spots. (The assessment was made in Rome, on Wednesday, February 24, 1616.) Proposition to be assessed: (1) The sun is the center of the world and wholly immovable from its place. Assessment: This proposition was unanimously declared "foolish and absurd. philosophically and formally heretical inasmuch as it expressly contradicts the doctrine of the Holy Scripture in many passages, both in their literal meaning and according to the general interpretation of the Holy Fathers and the doctors of theology." (2) The earth is not the center of the world, nor immovable, but it moves as a whole, also with diurnal motion. Assessment: This proposition was unanimously declared "deserving of the like censure in philosophy, and as regards theological truth, to be at least errouneous in faith." Sources: The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler, p. 455 (1959); Galileo Galilei by Karl Von Gebler, pp76-77 (1879). IV. Galileo's Papal Condemnation http://law2.umkc.edu... (Source: Giorgio de Santillana, The Crime of Galileo (University of Chicago Press 1955), pp. 306-310.) V. The Catholic Church preaches the bible is without error yet the bible consistently exhibits a geocentric world view. http://hypertextbook.com... CONCLUSION: I believe I have adequately demonstrated my position that the catholic church has contradicted itself since by admittance of heliocentric validity at the same time as scriptural inerracy; a stark contradiction. Thank you.