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What do you know???? A catholic who knows the truth. And I agree with you. Amazing though, most catholics won't even acknowledge there even was an inquisition.

When I was in the military I knew a catholic priest, a dominican, who told me all about the inquisition and how bad it actually was.

Yeah, and you trust this guy -- who had lost his faith but lacked the integrity to leave the priesthood and the Church, after all he needed the money -- so much that you think every word that fell from his lips ought to be treated like gospel. You reject Papal infallibility but accept the infallibility of a CINO Dominican priest you met in the army.

BS. I don't know any Catholic who tries to deny the Inquisition happened. Most actually believe the overblown, anti-catholic, propagandized version of events... including probably your Dominican. Take a look at the historical record being written even secular historians and you will find that, while sad and unfortunate, it was not nearly so bad as it has been made out to be.

Did you know that there were many people who petitioned to be tried by the inquisition rather than the secular courts? The perception of the people at that time and place was that the Church courts were more just and kinder in their judgment than the civil authorities.

"When I was in the military I knew a catholic priest, a dominican, who told me all about the inquisition and how bad it actually was"

And this liberal Dominican was at least 500 years old and spoke from personal experience, right?

Frankly speaking, the Dominicans are amongst the most liberal, tradition-hating Orders in the RCC. There is a very good former Domincian priest, who is also a theologian/professor, named Fr. John O'Connor. He taught theology at a major University for many years, but was blackballed and releived of his position when he tried to reveal the truth about the homo problem in the Domincans and other Church problems.

Fr. O'Connor has produced many Catholic videos and audio tapes that teach the TRADITIONAL Catholic teachings, in other words, the Truth. Fr. O'Connor would not teach that the Spanish Inquisition was so evil.

Though it did ential some regretful abuses it was felt necessary to the survival of Spain by their King and Queen. It's easy for modern revisionist 'historians' to sit at their keyboards and concoct anti Catholic diatribes with partial truths and missing facts. But just imagine what America would look like after finally overthrowing 400 years of Islamic rule, torture and oppression? We'd be in the mood for killing or deporting anyone who even remotely did not look, talk or pray like us. (I think the Japanese internment during WWII was a classic example of a nation of good people doing what is necessary to survive during a time of crisis).

The Dominicans should know - they ran it.

I notice you do not capitalize the "C" in Catholic....that pretty much says it all about how you feel about Catholics. Would you write jew...baptist? Doubt it.