The Roman Inquisition began in 1542 — 22 years before Galileo's birth — as part of the Catholic Church's Counter-Reformation against the spread of Protestantism, ...

But there were also various Inquisition movements as historians call them — the Medieval Inquisition, the Portuguese Inquisition, the Roman Inquisition, etc.

Although the Spanish and Portuguese versions were abolished in 1834 and 1822, respectively, the Roman Inquisition survives as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, ...

The Roman Inquisition later became known as the Holy Office and today exists as the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, one of the most powerful and influential Vatican offices.

MONTEREALE VALCELLINA, Italy — An odd little shrine to this village’s favorite son stands in the cobblestoned piazza outside the Domenico Scandella Social Center. It depicts a wheel of … ...

The Roman Inquisition began in 1542 as part of the Catholic Church's counter-reformation against Protestantism, and prosecuted people for heresy and other doctrinal crimes.

"The Roman Inquisition continues to exist," he writes, "with methods of psychological torture and the use in our day of many enforcement manuals." Küng, 84, ...

Roman Inquisition For a thousand years the Catholic Church has been a refuge for gay men. Now Pope Benedict hopes to “purify” his priesthood.

What an oddly male drama Diarmaid MacCulloch purveys in his portrait of the Roman Inquisition (LRB, 13 May).To read his account, you would think the inquisitors thought about men, conversed with men, ...

On April 12, 1633, the Roman Catholic Church began its formal inquisition of Galileo Galilei on charges of heresy. Galileo was tried by the Roman Inquisition “for holding as true the false doctrine ...