[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

How do you feel about the Inquisitions, and the other element on this forum who have openly called for its resumption?

Don't base your image of the Inquisition on a Monty Python sketch.

The Inquisition was part of a 700 year-long, successful effort to drive the Mohammedans out of Spain.

Inquisition courts were more fair than those of the kingdom of Spain, or any other contemporaneous European kingdom, Catholic or Protestant.

The most recent scholarship shows that the Black Legend is largely a myth, perpetuated by the English Protestants.

The name of the Congregation for Universal Inquisition was changed to the Congregation of the Holy Office in 1908, and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1965.

So it still exists(!)

[Alex Murphy]

Don't base your image of the Inquisition on a Monty Python sketch.

Now there's an answer I didn't expect.

[aimhigh]

The most recent scholarship shows that the Black Legend is largely a myth

Turkey says the Armenian Death March is a myth. Modern day Nazis say the Holocaust is a myth. And now Catholics say the Holocaust is now a myth. Ya right

[COBOL2Java]

Inquisition courts were more fair than those of the kingdom of Spain, or any other contemporaneous European kingdom, Catholic or Protestant.

And they sure had some snappy choreography... :0)

[Dqban22]

“Tree of Hate” by Philip Wayne Powell,Emeritus professor of History from University of California, is one of then scholar book written on Black Legend.

[Elsie]

Don't base your image of the Inquisition on a Monty Python sketch.

Heck no!!!

[Iscool]

The most recent scholarship shows that the Black Legend is largely a myth, perpetuated by the English Protestants.

According to your religion all non Catholic history is a myth as well as all the forgeries of your religious historical documents...Mythical...