[boatbums]

the Inquisition was dealing with Catholics or those pretending to be Catholics. It is an internal ecclesial court.

Just curious about your take on this "internal ecclesial court"...do you believe it had the power and right condoned by Jesus Christ to torture and give over to be executed those they condemned because of their supposed "heresies"? Do you believe it honors Christ to act in that fashion?

[count-your-change]

Christ gave an unambiguous answer to your question, that his disciples would be known by the love they show among themselves. Torturing, burning, strangling fellow believers? It may be Catholic but certainly not Christian by any definition.

[annalex]

do you believe it had the power and right condoned by Jesus Christ to torture and give over to be executed those they condemned because of their supposed "heresies"?

The Holy Inquisition operated legally everywhere it did, in accordance with the understanding of political power in, for example, Romans 13. It did not practice charity sufficiently enough to expect to be condoned by Christ in all its specific acts. It was a system of justice operated by fallible men fallibly, but it was no more at fault than any other system of justice operating at the time, and it was doing the will of Christ in preserving the faith in purity. The Holy Inquisition must not cease its work using modern judicial methodology; the Catholic Church in America is in dire need for its attention. When a seminary is cleansed from homosexuals, or an order is disciplined, it is God's work being done, and may we have more of it.