Nothing could show the desperation of the retreating party better than jugglery like this.

The fact is, that in the official account of the condemnation by Bellarmin, in 1616, he declares distinctly that he makes this condemnation "in the name of His Holiness the Pope."(81) (81) See the citation from the Vatican manuscript given in Gebler, p.
78.
Again, from Pope Urban downward, among the Church authorities of the seventeenth century the decision was always acknowledged to be made by the Pope and the Church.

Urban VIII spoke of that of 1616 as made by Pope Paul V and the Church, and of that of 1633 as made by himself and the Church.

Pope Alexander VII in 1664, in his bull Speculatores, solemnly sanctioned the condemnation of all books affirming the earth's movement.( 82) (82) For references by Urban VIII to the condemnation as made by Pope Paul V see pp.

136, 144, and elsewhere in Martin, who much against his will is forced to allow this.