Describes the western world's most potent religion, Catholicism, and its determination to maintain power at any cost in medieval France, 15th century Spain, Renaissance Italy and even into the 19th century. Historians, experts and Church authorities advise on the handling of this controversial ...
Bologna 1858, a Jewish boy is kidnapped by the Inquisition. His father takes up a struggle begun by Napoleon 60 years earlier. The emperor nearly succeeds in dismantling the inquisition and securing its secret files, but the popes regain their earthly powers. Decades later a desperate father ...
Venice - 1522. Capital of tolerance and Renaissance. And the centre for smugglers dealing in the banned literature of the protestant reformation. The church's most powerful weapon will be a new type of inquisition. Controlled by the pope himself. He will use it to curtail the spread of a ...
Fernando and Isabel proclaim themselves the Catholic Monarchs. In the war to drive the remaining Muslims from the south of the Kingdom their scapegoats become the Conversos, Jews who have converted to Christianity and who are now accused of being traitors and heretics secretly trying to ...
In the southwest of what is not France, in a time when the Church of Rome has proclaimed itself the one true religion, heresy has taken hold. The Pope sends the "Inquisitors of Heretical Depravity" to exterminate the heresy. Unbelievers are hunted down, condemned and burned. In 1308 a whole ...
As religious fundamentalism is seemingly on the rise across the globe, this four-part series is a timely reminder that it is no new thing. The Catholic Church’s institutional system of persecution, the Inquisition, ran for more than 500 years, from early in the 13th century to the 18th. We ...
The individual who placed this together does not understand God's love for HIS Jewish people and that the Mass is not a Biblical undertaking the restoration of the priesthood comes as a result of Constantine turning the heat down from boiling and killing Christians. It then becomes comfortable ...
For my History of Western Civilization class. Note: I make no claim of ownership to the video clip or photos depicted. However their use for this educational material falls under the Fair Use Act of 2007. Enjoy
