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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.
45 posted on 07/11/2003 9:13:55 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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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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