Actually, if you read more about the Galileo thing, Even Wikipedia, which can be edited by anyone and would most likely be open to falsehoods of any kind, admits that it was not because the Catholics were scientifically backward; This was the reason:
"Galileo defended heliocentrism based on his astronomical observations of 1609 (Sidereus Nuncius 1610). In December 1613, the Grand Duchess Christina of Florence [not the Church] confronted one of Galileo's friends... with biblical objections to the motion of the earth... Prompted by this incident, Galileo wrote a letter to [his friend] in which he argued that heliocentrism was actually not contrary to biblical texts, and that the bible was an authority on faith and morals, not on science. This letter was not published, but circulated widely.
By 1615, Galileo's writings on heliocentrism had been submitted to the Roman Inquisition by Father Niccolo Lorini, who claimed that Galileo and his followers were attempting to reinterpret the Bible, which was seen as a violation of the Council of Trent and looked dangerously like Protestantism." You bet it did ;)
See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#Controversy_over_heliocentrism[When I cut out some things (seen by ...), it was the things I considered unimportant, secondary details. If you want to see what you missed, check for yourself.
