To: Polycarp
The Spanish inquisitors were Roman clergy. Their offices were authorized with papal approval. Trying to pretend that the entire matter was one of the civil authority is ridiculous. Rome was responsible. Without inquisitors and Roman sanction, there could be no Inquisition.
To: George W. Bush
Same goes for Calvin and his victims. But you seem to have a blind spot there.
47 posted on
07/11/2003 9:40:48 AM PDT by
Polycarp
(When a mother can kill her own child, what is left of the West to save?" - Mother Theresa)
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