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Article: Inquisitive about the Inquisition?
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- Catholic Insight
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- November 1, 1999
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In his 1994 encyclical Tertio millennio adveniente, dealing with the beginning of the third millennium, Pope John Paul said that it was appropriate for the Church to repent of the sins of its officers and its faithful during the last two thousand years: "As the Second Millennium of Christianity draws to a close, the Church should become more fully conscious of the sinfulness of her children, recalling all those times in history when they departed from the spirit of Christ and his Gospel, and...indulged in ways of thinking and acting that were truly forms of counter-witness and scandal" (#33). The chief events he had in mind included the Inquisition, slavery, the Galileo ...