How bad was the Medieval Inquisition?

Chris Check is next.

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Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers Podcast

for Living Understanding and Defending your Catholic Faith.

I'm Psy Kelly, your host.

And the Medieval Inquisition is the one that started it all.

And before we talk about the Spanish Inquisition,

the Roman Inquisition or anything else

that's called an Inquisition in the history of the Catholic Church,

we thought it best to go back to the beginning.

What was the first Inquisition like?

Who were the people who were involved

and how did all of that turn out?

So Chris Check, our president, the president here,

of Catholic Answers, and a historian in his own right

is here to dig in with us.

Who were the albedansians, the cathars,

and what was all of this medieval Inquisition about?

And how did it give birth to something

that continues even to this day?

The Catholic kind of practice of Inquisitions.

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