Trying to make sense of the Spanish Inquisition, Christchek is next.

Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers podcast for living,

understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I'm Psykill at your host.

And this is the third part of a three-part series where we've been discussing with our

president, Christchek, the Inquisitions of the Catholic Church, the various Inquisitions in

the history of the Catholic Church. It all comes from a course that he has done for the

Catholic Answer School of Apologetics. I highly recommend that you take that course,

or at least check out the courses that are being offered there in the School of Apologetics.

You can do that by visiting schoolofapologetics.com, schoolofapologetics.com. This time,

we tackle the Spanish Inquisition. And frankly, when we Catholics talk about the Inquisition,

or when anyone talks about the Inquisition, they're usually talking about the Spanish Inquisition.

It has produced millions of nightmares, hundreds of different movie scenes,

and some really good literature. But is it based on the truth? Is all that based on the truth,

or is it based on Black Legend? Here's Christchek to help us understand it.

Christchek, president of the Catholic Answers, thank you for being with us. Again,

to talk about Inquisition, I'm going to just summarize. We've talked about the...

How many people have we executed so far?

While we've been doing these episodes. It hasn't been more than one or two a day.

I missed the marketing department, but they had it coming.

That's what they get for their heresies.

We talk about the Inquisition in general, the medieval Inquisition. There's this thing called

the Spanish Inquisition, which is what most people usually mean most of the time when they talk about

...