Part one of our deep dive into the Inquisition, Chris Check. Next.

Hello and welcome to Focus. The Catholic Cancer's podcast for living, understanding, and

defending your Catholic faith. I'm Psy Kellett, your host. And among the hardest things to defend

the Church against are the historical accusations that we have behaved badly sometimes. You all did

those crusades. You all did those inquisitions. You all murdered the great scientist Galileo,

and we hear all these things. And they're hard. They're hard to defend against because

people do bad things, and there's a lot of bad things that have been done by Catholics

throughout history. So defending ourselves or making an apologetic that defends the historical

record of Catholicism is a different thing than trying to defend the Bible or trying to defend

the divinity of Christ. It's a different thing that requires a certain kind of subtlety

and care. And so our own president, Chris Check, came in to handle that for us. In part one,

we're going to talk a bit with Chris about the mindset that makes the inquisitions possible,

but makes the inquisitions a thing that people would do. And also what kind of get into what did they

think that they were doing, not what do we think about it, but what did they think that they

were doing when they instituted these inquisitions. So we start in the medieval era with Chris Check.

Hi, esteemed and exalted president, Chris Check. Thank you so much for being here,

and thank you for telling me that I have to call you that.

Thank you. President. President Chris Check.

You have a client, of course. Who's a steam? This is news to me. You are high in my esteem,

certainly. But I think you're esteemed by many people. Three out of four of your sons.

Someone called me recently to pay a compliment to one of my grown sons. And it's not beautiful.

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