Sir, – The correct way to deal with Fr Tony Flannery would be as follows: 1. Threaten him with burning at the stake if he fails to recant; 2. Place him under house arrest for the rest of his natural life.
It worked a treat with Galileo, and shut him up for the next 400 years.
Eppur, si muove.
Then, somewhere around the year 2413, Pope Joan XXIII could offer a public apology, saying it had all been a terrible mistake. That a crowd of eejits had been running things back then. – Yours, etc,