I can't find anything more about that, than what I see here, from 1992:Chris Peterson wrote:So what do you say about the Roman Catholic Church correcting their little boo boo regarding Galileo, some 400 years late, and well into the Space Age? Self-satire?Nitpicker wrote:With a correction published almost 50 years after the original mistake -- and well after the first rockets in space -- I'd say it is the correction that is satire, self-directed. The best satire is subtle and understated.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/01/world ... right.html
I see no evidence of remorse or regret in what Pope John Paul II said before the esteemed Pontifical Academy of Sciences, nor do I detect any satire. But I imagine that a comparison between the Roman Catholic Church and the New York Times could form the basis of a wonderful satire.
What made the NYT correction satirical, in my opinion, was the mention of the subsequent confirmation of Newton's findings from the 17th Century, thus lampooning the editorialist from 1920.