[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.

[annalex]

Jan Hus

Hus was a protocommunist heretic of the first rank, who inspired a bloody peasant revolt. No apology there.

The quote from the current Catechism is worthless

The quote expresses regret in the cooperation with the torturers adn condemns torture. This is why the Inquisition in any its modern form will not cooperate with any government as it abuses human dignity, and will not, of course, itself abuse human dignity.

The Catholic Church is no longer a secular power

To the extent that over 1 billion Catholics in the secular world listen to the Church, she is.