Spanish inquisition

Has there ever been any official renunciation by a Roman Catholic governing body of the use of physical coercion to combat heresy, obviously to include the institutions of the Medieval Inquisition. Although I have found apologies to victims I have not found any official renunciation of the legitimacy of the institutions themselves. I am not inclined to become Catholic, but if I were, that would be something I would want to know. No official renunciation would be a serious impediment.

Nope.

I don't expect they ever have, although I would also imagine it to be a bit low on the list of things the Catholic church has to officially renounce and/or apologize for. Somewhere in the neighborhood of papal fallacy & inciting the crusades.

You know the protestants had the longest period of inquisition ... right?

It was still applied by Prostestants in nothern Europe and North America (i.e. Salem) when in the rest of Europe there was already the Renaissance. Well into the 1500s!

Just in case you read dan brown.

I'm under no illusions there, but should like to point out that "protestantism" is not a monolithic historic entity like the Roman Catholic Church. The word protestant is often imprecisely polemicized to mean the full spectrum of non-Catholic Christianity, in for instance, a sentence like, "Catholics have done abc, but protestants have done xyz". It is clearer to identify to which protestants one is referring. But then the whole idea of historical guilt is a fuzzy construction in and of itself.

LOOL
i love it :)

probably should of showed you videos of torture

NOBODY expects the Spanish inquisition!

And those that do...

ha good ol Monty Python some of the best comedy ive seen