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 ...
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From a small Italian community in 15th century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill, duplicity and ruthlessness, they would amass unparalleled wealth and unprecedented power. They would also ignite the most important cultural and ...
Is World War 3 and Armageddon coming soon? This end times prophecy warns us of a coming nuclear war, but where will this apocalypse occur? Iran, Israel, North Korea, China? The scriptures tell us where this holocaust will take place and why. This sobering conclusion to Zechariah's prophecy will ...
