Inquisition

The word Inquisition comes from the Latin word quaerere, which means to turn or to ask a question. 

Purposes
The Inquisition issued a list of banned books called The Index. The Church had decided these books contained heresy and forbade the faithful to read them. The Inquisition also prosecuted individuals who were accused of heresy.

Later versions of the Inquisition had the power to use torture (or the threat of torture) to get confessions and force people to convert to Catholicism. It also had the power to order executions, which civil authorities carried out. Usually heretics were burned alive or strangled in public. 
History
The Inquisition developed in stages. The first permanent Inquisition was established in Rome in 1229. It was run by the Dominican Order.Lea, Henry Charles 1888. Chapter VII. The Inquisition Founded. A History of the Inquisition In The Middle Ages, 1. . The judicial use of torture was as yet happily unknown... 

In 1478, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile set up the Spanish Inquisition. It played an important role in European history.

Denial

The Vatican

In 2004, the Roman Catholic Church published findings that the judges of the Inquisition were "not as brutal as previously believed". 

  The Church also denied that most trials were carried out by Catholic courts. It said the court's victims were often "tortured for only 15 minutes in the presence of doctors".

Spain

For the past decade, movements within Spain have emerged to rewrite the history of the Spanish Inquisition. Members of the movements released a series of books, films, TV programs and mobile exhibitions to beautify the Inquisition-associated Spanish history.

Related pages
 Ustaše
 Antisemitism
 Supersessionism
 Spanish Inquisition
 Index Librorum Prohibitorum
 Independent State of Croatia
 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Other websites
 The Catholic Church
 The Secret of the Inquisition
 Antisemitism in History: From the Early Church to 1400
 Foundations of Holocaust: From Inquisition to “Purity of Blood”
 The Roman Catholic Church, the Holocaust, and the demonization of the Jews. Response to “Benjamin and us: Christanity, its Jews, and history” by Jeanne Favret-Saada

References

Category:Europe
Category:Racism
Category:Courts (law)
Category:Catholicism
Category:Law of Spain
Category:Antisemitism
Category:South America
Category:Discrimination
Category:History of Spain
Category:2nd-millennium establishments in Spain
Category:1830s disestablishments
Category:1470s establishments in Europe
Category:Christianity in the Middle Ages
Category:19th-century disestablishments in Europe