The Inquisition was the thing that troubled me most about the Catholic Church before I converted, and it still troubles me in a moral sense (but not from the standpoint that it disproves Catholic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the most pervasive myths about colonial Latin American society is that it was Catholic, full stop. It’s a familiar story: ...

Sixty Catholics, most of them nuns from Catholic seminaries in Westchester County, a suburb of New York City, heard two rabbis yesterday discussing the persecutions suffered by Spanish Jewry during ...

In 1642, it would have been hard to find a Jew in Spain. A century and a half prior, the Dominican Friar Tomás de Torquemada had convinced Catholic monarchs Ferdinand II and Isabella I to issue the ...

A defense of the Catholic Inquisition in Spain is contained in a book called Isabella of Spain, written by William Thomas Walsh. The book has just been published by Robert M. McBride & Company. In his ...

Under Pope Francis' leadership, the Catholic Church continues the struggle to rid itself of its past images of triumphalism and war as it seeks to become the church of the poor. The battle is to stop ...

Rare documentation of the Portuguese Inquisition with detailed information about the sentencing trials which took place 500 years ago have been digitized for the first time in the Central Archives for ...