[livius]

Rome, in fact, tried to get the Spanish government to shut down the Inquisition for years, sending bula after bula. It was such a useful instrument for the Emperor - or at any rate, some people in his government - that the Spanish government was not willing to let it go.

[littlelilac]

then would I be correct in assuming the Catholic clergy in Spain itself willing participated in the Inquisition despite Rome's protestations or were all or some of the Catholic clergy being forced to faciliate the will of the Spanish monarchy....

and are you saying that the Vatican did not in any way profit from the expropriation of land and property from those labelled heretics......