"Do you not know that so much reading of Scripture ruins the Catholic religion?"
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Rhetorical question to the Venetian ambassador (1606), quoted in Diarmaid MacCulloch, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490–1700 (2003), p. 406 and G. Fragnito, La Bibbia al rogo: la censura ecclesiastica e i volgarizzamenti della Scrittura (1471–1605) (1997), p. 330
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Pope Paul V
Pope Paul V (17 September 1550 – 28 January 1621), born Camillo Borghese, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 16 May 1605 to his death in 1621. In 1611, he honoured Galileo Galilei as a member of the Papal Accademia dei Lincei and supported his discoveries. In 1616, Pope Paul V instructed Cardinal Bellarmine to inform Galileo that the Copernican theory could not be taught as fact, but Bellarmine's certificate allowed Galileo to continue his studies in search for ev
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