[roamer_1]

The Inquisition was a force for good in its time

Tell that to the Cathars

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The Cathars were not Christians. They resisted repeated attempts by missionaries to convert them to Christianity, so the authorities (both civil and ecclesiastical) resorted to what was then the usual method of dealing with insurrection. The Cathars would probably have wiped themselves out eventually anyway, due to their infatuation with suicide.

[stonehouse01]

The protestants were vicious to the Catholics in St. Elizabeth’s England (1585 Penal Laws and the killing of priests) and the Puritans and other protestants persecuted (including the burning of Churches) Catholics in the New World.

Can we talk about the deliberate starvation of 1.5 million Catholic Irish at the hands of the British protestants?

These sad eras are due to original sin and its effects on all of mankind - Catholics are no worse than Protestants and all are subject to original sin.

St. Margaret Clitherow ora pro nobis