#439 - Actually, everybody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

When people want to criticize Catholic history the inquisition is one of the “go-to” topics. In this episode Trent sits down with Catholic Answers president Chris Check to expose the myths and realities of the inquisition and how its lessons still apply today.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:10.8	Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition except everybody does because that Monty Python joke
0:16.3	has gotten old.
0:17.6	What hasn't gotten old though are criticisms of the Catholic faith based on the Inquisition,
0:22.6	based on a lot of things in history that people don't understand.
0:25.6	Joining us today on the Council of Trend Podcast is Christopher Chek.
0:28.7	He is the president of Catholic Answers and actually has a new course at our School of
0:32.6	Polygedics on the Inquisition.
0:35.4	And as we're going to talk about today, for those of you who knew this show, my name is Trent
0:39.2	Horn, Catholic Answers of Polygist and Speaker.
0:41.5	This is the Council of Trend Podcast.
0:43.0	Tuesdays and Thursdays, we talk of polygedics, theology, Friday, we talk about whatever I
0:48.2	find to be interesting.
0:49.2	If you're listening to the podcast, so be sure to also go to YouTube because you can watch
0:53.4	all the podcast episodes on YouTube, subscribe there.
0:56.1	Then you can check out our interview now taking place in the Catholic Answers studio.
1:01.4	So Chris, welcome back to the Council of Trend.
1:03.7	I'm happy to be back.
1:04.7	I think the last time we were talking about whether a marine rifle platoon could defeat
1:10.6	an aromain legion or something.
1:12.7	Yes, I was doing.
1:13.7	It was important topic.
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