God's Jury: The Inquisition And The Making Of The Modern World - Plot & Excerpts
With God on Our Side The Inquisition and the Modern World The Church has no fear of historical truth. —POPE JOHN PAUL II , 1998We know you’re wishing that we’d go away, But the Inquisition’s here and it’s here to stay. —MEL BROOKS, HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART 1 , 1981 Making Martyrs ABOUT A YEAR AGO, I returned to Rome to spend some time with Msgr. Alejandro Cifres, who after more than a decade is still in charge of the Inquisition archives at the Vatican. Some things had not changed. The shop Euroclero still stood across the street, beyond the gates, selling chalices and cassocks and resplendent liturgical garments for clerics of every rank. It has been Josef Ratzinger’s tailor for many years. The windows of the Palazzo del Sant’Uffizio still bore their heavy bars. The studded wooden doors at the entrance were as welcoming as ever. But there seemed to be more cars and fewer Vespas parked outside. And there had been other changes. For one thing, the monsignor’s boss, Cardinal Ratzinger, had taken a new job, and had moved from his office upstairs to quarters on the top floor of the Apostolic Palace, above the northern arm of Bernini’s colonnade.
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