What the church initiated as a strictly regulated process, in which torture was allowed for only 15 minutes and in the presence of a doctor, got out of hand when other bodies were involved. The church does not deny its responsibility for atrocities committed by Catholics in its name.
In the Pope publicly apologised for the unnecessary "violence" used. But he is not keen to be made to repent for sins the Vatican can prove it did not commit.
Cardinal Georges Cottier, a Vatican theologian, said: "You can't ask pardon for deeds which aren't there. Resistance often led to persecution. Heresies from L. In the early centuries there were the Arians and Manicheans; in the Middle Ages there were the Cathari and Waldenses; and in the Renaissance there were the Hussites, Lutherans, Calvinists, and Rosicrucians.
Efforts to suppress heresies were initially ad hoc. But in the Middle Ages a permanent structure came into being to deal with the problem.
Beginning in the 12th century, Church Councils required secular rulers to prosecute heretics. In , Pope Gregory IX published a decree which called for life imprisonment with salutary penance for the heretic who had confessed and repented and capital punishment for those who persisted. The secular authorities were to carry out the execution. Pope Gregory relieved the bishops and archbishops of this obligation, and made it the duty of the Dominican Order , though many inquisitors were members of other orders or of the secular clergy.
By the end of the decade the Inquisition had become a general institution in all lands under the purview of the Pope.
By the end of the 13th centuries the Inquisition in each region had a bureaucracy to help in its function. While the schism was resolved by the Council of Constance , a resulting reform movement known as Conciliarism sought to limit the power of the pope. Although the papacy eventually emerged supreme in ecclesiastical matters by the Fifth Council of the Lateran , it was dogged by continued accusations of corruption, most famously in the person of Pope Alexander VI, who was accused variously of simony, nepotism, and fathering four children.
Churchmen such as Erasmus and Luther proposed reform to the church, often based on Humanist textual criticism of the New Testament. In October Luther published the Ninety-five Theses , challenging papal authority and criticizing its perceived corruption, particularly with regard to instances of sold indulgences.
Humanism and the Renaissance therefore played a direct role in sparking the Reformation, as well as in many other contemporaneous religious debates and conflicts. Pope Paul III came to the papal throne — after the sack of Rome in , with uncertainties prevalent in the Catholic Church following the Protestant Reformation.
Part of the agreement with France was to dismantle the Inquisition, which was defunct by The last person to be executed by the Inquisition was Cayetano Ripoll, a Spanish schoolmaster hanged for heresy in The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition still exists, though changed its name a couple of times.
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