Posted on 07/18/2015 9:34:09 AM PDT by Salvation
Question: What was the Church’s involvement with the Spanish Inquisition? It seems clothed in shadows. — Dorothy Perez, San Antonio Answer: This brief column cannot cover all the details and provide extensive references. However, the Spanish Inquisition was run by the secular government, not by the Church. The Church did have its own inquisition, distinct from the secular government of Spain. Most people preferred the Church’s inquisition and often appealed cases there since it was more clement and just by their estimation. The term “inquisition” simply refers to an inquiry into charges leveled against a person, usually of heresy. They were questioned as to their true views rather than be condemned on hearsay or rumors. If a person was found guilty of heresy, they were permitted to recant or clarify their views. If they would not, the solutions ranged from exile and imprisonment to, in rarer cases, death. In an age of secularism and wider religious liberty (though it is increasingly threatened), such severe measures strike moderns as excessive and reactionary. However, until recent times, religion, social order and justice were strongly tied to proper religious practice and understanding. For one to adopt heretical views and encourage others to do so posed a serious threat to the social order and peace. The state, even more than the Church, would seldom abide religious rebellion and knew by instinct that social disorder and chaos often followed religious squabbles. Did the Church cooperate with the Spaniards? To some degree yes, to others degrees no. The Church’s hands are not likely pure in the matter. But neither are the Protestants who ran a tight ship in places like Geneva and England. There are many Catholic martyrs to show that Protestants, too, worked with local governments to shut down dissent from Protestant notions and punish noncompliance, often with death.
hey Is
history has a real way of correcting BS
after all these years why isn’t it called the ‘Catholic Inquisition’ instead of the Spanish Inquisition??
It is called the Spanish Inquisition for a reason that still eludes many folks who flunked history and geography.
It never ceases to amaze me how Catholics can blow off as nothing some of most henous sin their church has engaged in throughout its history.
Anyway, I doubt you are amazed in the least at what Protestant inquisitions did.
It's a fair cop.
The first stirrings of Due Process. i.e. we give the defendant a chance to speak/recant and then we burn them instead of just burning them first. Hey, its a start.
One good aspect of the Spanish Inquisition, was Christopher Columbus coming to the West searching for a destination for the Jews being driven out of Spain.
Candidates for their loving touch include Pelosi, Biden, Kerry, Kennedy (take your pick...or the whole lot of them), Kasper, Wuerl, Dolan, Mahony, the German, French, and Swiss bishops...and that's just a small start.
And if the State has a criminal penalty for heresy, so be it. If a person was to be found guilty of heresy and refuses to repent, they have already condemned themselves to eternal perdition...what happens to their earthly bodies as a result of government action pales in comparison to that.
You mean like God ordering Joshua to wipe out all the other residents of the promised land. Or how about Abraham rescuing Lot by waging war against the 5 kings?
Keep in mind the times these events all occurred in.
Wow great use the logical fallacy of Reductio ad absurdum /SARC
Pssst, Baptists, KKK, Slavery, Did you manage to forget that connection?
“...Protestants did not do so for nearly millenia...”
This statement is not supported by actual history.
The Arians murdered St. Paul of Constantinople circa 350 A.D. for his adherence to the correct understanding of the Trinity. The Arians were protestants who did not believe in the Trinity - they were responsible for many persecutions and cruelty against the early Christians who held onto the correct doctrine (the Catholics) handed down from the Apostles.
Medivial peasants on both sides were unlearned peasants who were prone to viciousness and violence. Virtually none could read.
Almost everyone was illiterate. Research the sack of Rome in 1527; Protestants had no qualms pillaging and burning with the rest.
St. Melletius ora pro nobis
Is it to late for me to change my "nick" to Tomás de Torquemada?
Read the accounts in this thread of Protestant inquisitions (presumably guided by "Sola Scriptura") against Catholics.
There are also conflicts between Protestant sects with different interpretations of Sola Scriptura. What? Oh, I see, only YOUR sect's interpretation is the real Sola Scriptura...
Yup.
Riiiight.....
Yes, convert or die.
Where have we heard that before?
It would only be a start.
Then it would go beyond that to whomever they deem to qualify.
NOWHERE does Jesus ever condone the kind of actions sanctioned by the church towards those who were part of the body.
Unless of course, your favored brand wasn't made up until much more recently, which is entirely possible.
Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James the flamer, that gave us the error laden KJV, Calvin,. Let's not forget the Salem witch trials that had their beginnings in Sola Scriptura.
God is sovereign over the universe. Unlike man.
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