Galileo

Galileo understood science better than the Pope. He pointed a telescope at the sky and found out that the Earth orbits the Sun among other things. The Roman Catholic Church thought that couldn't be true because bronze Age peasants who wrote the Old Testament wrote things that suggest that the sun goes round the Earth etc. The Inquistion threatened to torture Galileo unless he recanted and agreed that the earth doesn't move.

Whatever the Roman Catholic Church said or did the Earth carries on orbiting the sun.