A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. ... and even theological matters, but critique of papacy remains. Compiled by Ted Olsen, 04/05/2005 04:30 p.m. ... The Reformation itself was a reaction to the lengths to which the RCC had gone to take control over the Scriptures, the nations, the ...

Tommaso Caccini, a Dominican friar, appears to have made the first dangerous attack on Galileo.Preaching a sermon in Florence at the end of 1614, he denounced Galileo, his associates, and mathematicians in general (a category that included astronomers). The biblical text for the sermon on that day was Joshua 10, in which Joshua makes the Sun stand still; this was the …