[annalex]

I don't recall ever hearing of the Catholic church renouncing the Inquisition. Did it ever do that?

Did it ever make restitution?

I don't think any of that is owed summarily, although there were some who were possibly condemned without good cause. I can think of Savonarola, for example.

The Catechism however does condemn torture, and suggests praying both for the victims and the tormentors, as I quoted in 523.

[OLD REGGIE]

I don't recall ever hearing of the Catholic church renouncing the Inquisition. Did it ever do that?

Did it ever make restitution?

I don't think any of that is owed summarily, although there were some who were possibly condemned without good cause. I can think of Savonarola, for example.

Jan Hus and many thousands of others.

The Catechism however does condemn torture, and suggests praying both for the victims and the tormentors, as I quoted in 523.

The quote from the current Catechism is worthless insofar as the Inquisition and its' sorry record is concerned.

The Catholic Church is no longer a secular power. In fact it lost all pretense to secular power when the Papal Army was defeated in 1870.