Pt. I. The "Trials" of Galileo. 1. The Galileo Affair: Interpretation of a Historical Event. 2. 1616. 3. 1633 -- Pt. II. The Cultural Field of the Counter Reformation. 4. The Council of Trent: The Doctrinaire Phase of the Counter Reformation. 5. The Dominicans: A Traditional Intellectual Elite of the Catholic Church. 6. The Jesuits: An Alternative Intellectual Elite. 7. Freedom and Authority in Jesuit Culture. 8. The Thomist Boundaries of Jesuit Education. 9. Dominicans and Jesuits: A Struggle for Theological Hegemony -- Pt. III. Galileo and the Church. 10. Traditionalist Interpretations of Copernicanism: From an Unproven to an Unprovable Explanation. 11. Copernicanism and the Jesuits. 12. The Cultural Field of Galileo and the Jesuits. 13. The Dispute on Sunspots