The Inquisition was the thing that troubled me most about the Catholic Church before I converted, and it still troubles me in a moral sense (but not from the standpoint that it disproves Catholic ...

This interview was originally broadcast on Jan. 23, 2012. The individuals who participated in the first Inquisition 800 years ago kept detailed records of their activities. Vast archival collections ...

Mike — I have no desire to wade into the thick of your intramural discussion on Catholicism in America, never mind what you call Catholic fever swamps. But you write: I share Zmirak’s basic principle, ...

WHAT: Murphy makes the past present. The title of his previous book asked the imperial question ‘‘Are We Rome?’’ In ‘‘God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World,’’ the Medfield ...

July 21, 1643 was a typical day during the Spanish Inquisition - hot and dusty, haunted by flimsy denunciations, and tinged with blood. Over the preceding year or so a nasty, convoluted debate between ...

Even those who otherwise know little of the history of the Catholic Church know about the Spanish Inquisition. As a Catholic theologian who has written on the subject of torture, I often face the ...

The Vatican has published a new study on the abuses committed by the medieval Inquisition and come to a rather surprising conclusion - that in fact the much feared judges of heresy were not as brutal ...

The individuals who participated in the first Inquisition 800 years ago kept detailed records of their activities. Vast archival collections at the Vatican, in France and in Spain contain accounts of ...