Inquisition
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title:
Inquisition
text:
The Inquisition was a judicial procedure and a group of institutions within the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy, apostasy, blasphemy, witchcraft, and customs considered deviant. Violence, torture, or the simple threat of its application, were used by the Inquisition to extract confessions and denunciations from heretics. Studies of the records have found that the overwhelming majority of sentences consisted of penances, but convictions of unrepentant heresy were handed over to the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
System of tribunals enforcing Catholic orthodoxy
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition
date created:
2001-10-26T17:05:57Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T12:03:51Z
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