For the authentic publication of the bull, see preface to the Index of 1664, where the bull appears, signed by the Pope.

The Rev.Mr.Roberts and Mr.St.George Mivart are Roman Catholics and both acknowledge that the papal sanction was fully given.
The position of the mother Church had been thus made especially difficult; and the first important move in retreat by the apologists was the statement that Galileo was condemned, not because he affirmed the motion of the earth, but because he supported it from Scripture.

There was a slight appearance of truth in this.

Undoubtedly, Galileo's letters to Castelli and the grand duchess, in which he attempted to show that his astronomical doctrines were not opposed to Scripture, gave a new stir to religious bigotry.

For a considerable time, then, this quibble served its purpose; even a hundred and fifty years after Galileo's condemnation it was renewed by the Protestant Mallet du Pan, in his wish to gain favour from the older Church.
But nothing can be more absurd, in the light of the original documents recently brought out of the Vatican archives, than to make this contention now.