The Holy Inquisitions of the Catholic Church began in the 12th century and were created to root out and punish heresy ...

A familiar reaction is to accuse someone of behaving like the Spanish Inquisition. As a rhetorical device, it works well. It carries overtones of a thought police, of a tyranny over mind and soul.

That led to a collaboration that produced Reading the Spanish Inquisition. “It came directly out of teaching needs, to make more material available for students.” Professor of History Karen Melvin ...

Their safe return was welcome news for Mexico's now thriving Jewish community of about 50,000 people, many of whom were drawn to the country by its modern-day commitment to religious freedom.

The Spanish Inquisition, still active and extremely efficient at keeping Protestants out of Spain, was for Protestant writers merely the latest version of this persecution.

The Inquisition revolutionized record-keeping and surveillance techniques that are still used today, says Cullen Murphy. ... A century later, during the Spanish Inquisition, ...

Interrogation at Guantanamo, for example, illustrates that the spirit of the Spanish Inquisition is alive and well today, Murphy says. "The Inquisition tried to put restraints on torture.

The Spanish Inquisition lasted for only 100 years. Moslems occupiers of Spain and Portugal orchestrated 800 years of torture, rape, murder, ...

Linda Chavez joined Mona Charen to discuss her debut novel The Silver Candlesticks, inspired by a personal revelation during ...