Galileo

When I heard about people criticizing the church because of Galileo, I was concern. Since I believe in science discovery, and if the church had made an infallible church teaching on Galileo's theory is wrong, then, the church would not really be... infallible.

Then everything that I have believed in would be wrong.

I've searched everywhere, for an explanations that I can explain. Most of them gave really complicated answers with Catholic terms that ignorant (or ex-ignorant?) lay Catholic such as myself would never understand.

But I found this >article<.

I will try find more explanations because I want to compare and contrast the evidence.

By the way, Catholics don't reject Evolution. (Nor that it infallibly supports it either). It is because, our understanding of the Bible is that, the Bible can be understood in 4 ways (I got this explanation from >here<: The literal sense, the allegorical sense, the moral sense, and the anagogical sense.  

The literal sense when one reads about a temple in the bible is a big building where everyone went to worship. 

This is what the Pharisee thought that Jesus was talking about in John 2 when Jesus said “Destroy this temple and I will rebuild it in 3 days.” However, Jesus was talking about the allegorical sense (how the text refers to Jesus) and the fact that His Body is the new Temple.  

The moral sense of scripture is how the verse applies to us and our personal morality.  Since the bible says that our bodies are temples for the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians 6, then we should not spend one second desecrating our temple by getting drunk, watching impure movies, having an abortion, cursing, etc.  The desecration of the temple is what started the whole Maccabean revolt in 1 Maccabees.  

The last method, the anagogical sense, refers to the heavenly sense.  We know that after the second coming there will be a new heavenly temple (Revelation 21), and the old earth and all of its churches and temples will pass away.  

>Here< is a more technical explanation. Which I myself have not read for the time being. Wait until my exam is over.