The New Gospel

We say, pronounce, sentence and declare that you, the said Galileo … have rendered yourself in the judgment of this Holy office vehemently suspected of heresy, namely, of having believed and held the doctrine which is false and contrary to the Sacred and Divine Scriptures, that the sun is the center of the world and does not move from east to west and that the earth moves and is not the center of the world … after it has been declared and defined as contrary to Holy Scripture … From which we are content that you be absolved, provided that … you abjure, curse, and detest before us the aforesaid errors and heresies …