I hate to interject a bit of reality, but the Protestants started off attacking Catholics about as soon as Luther had followers. In addition, even the schismatic Anglican Church (before it accepted full blown Protestantism from Cranmer and went beyond mere schism) was ruthless in its attacks against Catholics, not only torturing and killing them, but destroying or seizing churches and monasteries, killing religious or expelling them from their convents to starve to death in the roads, all to extend the new religion of Henry VIII.
In Germany, Protestantism immediately unleashed a bloodbath because of Luther’s connection with various German rulers, and not much later, Calvin launched his own war not only on Catholics but on other Protestants. Geneva was the scene of burning at the stake and numerous other tortures and execution methods; not to mention when he marched Catholics naked into the lake in the winter and made them stand there until they froze to death. I believe he did the same with a group of Anabaptists.
That spread to the New World, as well. A Jesuit Priest sold himself to one of my ancestors and thus became property of the Manor Lord, and survived the Protestant Reformation in Maryland (ca. 1730). He purchased his freedom after things settled down. Had he not had such protection, his life would have been forfeit.
The Pope should first apologize to the Catholic victims of the apostate Henry VIII, original host of `Queen For A Day’.
He needs to study the Thirty Years War as well.
The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Spanish: Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition (Inquisicion espanola), was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile.
Martin Luther was born at Eisleben in Saxony on Nov. 10, 1483, the son of Hans and Margaret Luther