The Inquisition saw this not as the end but the beginning of phase II In their quest against heresy. By this time they monitored the whole of the south of France through a network of informants.
The Inquisition was there to stay to support the power of the Catholic church of Rome. And it has stayed until the present day.
It has tried to sanitize itself. In 1908, the Inquisition was renamed “ The Sacred Congregation of The Holy Office!’ Then in a further change it became the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1965. The Inquisitions softened image is to maintain the Orthodoxy of the church.
The currant head of the Congregation called the ”prefect” is the Grand Inquisitor appointed on May 15, 2005 is California born Monsignor William Levada. Formerly Arch –Bishop of San Francisco, his immediate predecessor Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope in 2005. Ratzinger is quite clear about the churches doctrine.
There is no flexibility with regards to its precepts. “Revelation terminated with Jesus Christ” Ratzinger has stated throwing out a direct challenge to those who might think that TRUTH is there to be discovered even today.
Conveniently forgetting the vote at the Council of Nicea that defiled Jesus. He is dismissive to those who think that the church is anything but divine. The church appears to be a human constraint”. “One cannot establish the truth by resolution but can only recognize and accept it”. “ Truth cannot be created through ballots”.” The church bearer of Faith does not sin.”
The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith clearly maintains the stance of its ancestor the Inquisition. In shoring up the boundaries of belief and placing limits on the discovery of truth, it serves in effect as the Vatican’s command and control center.
This department’s only reason for existing is to keep at bay the Vatican’s greatest and most secret fear. That evidence might emerge that would prove that Jesus was not a God which the council of Nicea proclaimed but a man. Perhaps that is what Pope Leo the X meant when he stated in A.D. that this “ myth of Christ has served the Church well”. Or “ how much we and our family have profited by this legend of Christ” as reported by John Bale the apostate English Carmelite to Queen Elizabeth I in 1560. If this is true it would be a crushing blow for all of Christendom for it would mean that the entire christen faith was based on fraud!
After the termination of the Cathar faith, by the inquisition, in the forty year crusade by the Catholic Church known as the Albeserian Crusade. They then set their sights on the Knights Templars who had served Christian nations for over two hundred years!
Then in the fourteenth century they turned their attention to the Order of the Franciscans, who because of their determined simplicity, were assumed to be infected with heresy!
A hundred years later the inquisition turned upon the Jews and Muslims of Spain, particularly those who had converted to Catholicism and suspected of secretly turning to their former faith. Two hundred and eighty eight people were burnt alive between April and November 1481. In 1485 an inquisitor was murdered in retaliation and a whole new reign of terror took place.
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