Much good science was done in spite of the faiths as Galileo would testify.
The Church was accepting the science when there was absolutely no other way.
Galileo was imprisoned for insulting the Pope in his book. This had nothing to do with religion, but rather good old fashion, people with power don't like having that power abused. There's a reason other astronomers weren't so persecuted for their ideas, it was how they presented them, not the idea itself.