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# Inquisition wasn't quite as bad as people think, says Pope
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By Bruce Johnston in Rome 12:01AM BST 16 Jun 2004
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The Vatican sought to play down the terrors of the Inquisition yesterday,
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claiming that far fewer people were tortured and executed for heresy than was
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popularly believed.
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The reassessment by Church historians was seized on by the Pope to qualify the
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apology he made for the Inquisition during the Church's millennium
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celebrations.
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The research emerged from a conference of scholars convened in 1998 to help
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the Pope assess the impact of the Inquisition, which often used brutal methods
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to suppress alleged witchcraft and doctrinal unorthodoxy.
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Church officials said that statistics and other data demolished myths about
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the Inquisition, including that torture and executions were commonly used.
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"For the first time we studied the Inquisition in its entirety, from its
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beginnings to the 19th century," said Agostino Borromeo, a professor of
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history of Catholic and other Christian confessions at Rome's Sapienza
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University. Prof Borromeo said that while there were some 125,000 trials of
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suspected heretics in Spain, research found that about one per cent of the
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defendants were executed, far fewer than commonly believed. Many of the
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burnings at the stake were carried out by civil rather than religious
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tribunals.
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