There was a good read in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday on the Vatican's plan to erect a statue of Galileo. As the Journal put it, his 1633 trial and conviction "may be the Vatican's biggest public-relations debacle." Now, it adds, the Catholic Church will build "a monument to a man who may be its most illustrious heretic."Any takers on who else should be memorialized in Vatican City?

Paul Moses is the author, most recently, of The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia (NYU Press, 2023). He is a contributing writer. Twitter: @PaulBMoses.

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