Catholic Church's role on the rh bill and Inquisition

What is the role of the "Holy", "Apostolic", Roman, Catholic, "Church" in the Rh bill and the Inquisition?

From the question stated above, i know youre getting my point!^^

To those who were not aware on the reality, the Catholic Church is opposed on passing the bill because they say it will point on being legal of abortion and so on. In the image on this of the Catholic Church, it is like they treat life SO MUCH IMPORTANCE, and so they are so HOLY and in caring "human's life" with low understanding about using contraception and so on.

What am i wondering is that if they really TREAT LIFE as sacred why then in the famous Inquisition happened hundred years ago, they do not give IMPORTANCE TO LIFE?

dont know what i am talking about? Ok, let's start! I will not post about the rh bill because we already knew catholic church's stand about it, i will just post about the Inquisition! My source is the wikipedia:

"The term Inquisition can apply to any one of several institutions which fought against heretics (or other offenders against canon law) within the justice-system of the Roman Catholic Church.

Although similar institutions existed within Calvinist and other Protestant churches, the term "Inquisition" is usually applied to that of the Catholic Church."

Historians distinguish four different manifestations of the Inquisition:

1. the Medieval Inquisition (1231–16th century)
2. the Spanish Inquisition (1478–1834)
3. the Portuguese Inquisition (1536–1821)
4. the Roman Inquisition (1542 – c. 1860 )

MEDIEVAL INQUISITION

"These inquisitions responded to large popular movements throughout Europe considered apostate or heretical to Christianity, in particular the Cathars in southern France and the Waldensians in both southern France and northern Italy".

"Legal basis for some inquisitorial activity came from Pope Innocent IV's papal bull Ad exstirpanda of 1252, which authorized and regulated the use of torture in investigating heresy".


SPANISH INQUISITION

"In contrast to the previous inquisitions, it operated completely under royal authority, though staffed by secular clergy and orders, and independently of the Holy See."

"It targeted primarily converts from Islam Muslims (Moriscos or secret Moors) and converts from Judaism (Conversos and Marranos) — both groups still resided in Spain after the end of the Islamic control of Spain — who came under suspicion of either continuing to adhere to their old religion or of having fallen back into it. Somewhat later the Spanish Inquisition took an interest in Protestants of virtually any sect, notably in the Spanish Netherlands. In the Spanish possessions of the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples in southern Italy, which formed part of the Spanish Crown's hereditary possessions, it also targeted Greek Orthodox Christians."


PORTUGUESE INQUISITION

"The Portuguese Inquisition principally targeted the Sephardic Jews, whom the state forced to convert to Christianity. Spain had expelled its Sephardic population in 1492 ; after 1492 many of these Spanish Jews left Spain for Portugal but eventually became targeted there as well."

"It concentrated its efforts on rooting out converts from other faiths (overwhelmingly Judaism) who did not adhere to the observances of Catholic orthodoxy; the Portuguese inquisitors mostly targeted the Jewish "New Christians", conversos, or marranos."

" In addition, the Inquisition prosecuted non-converts who broke prohibitions against the observance of Hindu or Muslim rites or interfered with Portuguese attempts to convert non-Christians to Catholicism."

"According to Henry Charles Lea, between 1540 and 1794 tribunals in Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra and Évora resulted in the burning of 1,175 persons, the burning of another 633 in effigy, and the penancing of 29,590. But documentation of fifteen out of 689"


ROMAN INQUISITION

"In 1542 Pope Paul III established the Congregation of the Holy Office of the Inquisition as a permanent congregation staffed with cardinals and other officials. It had the tasks of maintaining and defending the integrity of the faith and of examining and proscribing errors and false doctrines;"

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Meaning to say, the Catholic Church is not only responsible of the people who they have killed by burning at stake, tortured and so on, but responsible on the FORCED CONVERSION OF OTHER FAITH TO CATHOLICISM!

Is that the true Church of Christ?

Did Christ in his time FORCED people to join his church?

Did Christ and the apostles tortured or burned in the stake those who guilty of heresy?

Is that a work of CHRIST'S PEOPLE/CHURCH?

But wait, it is not the end, let us proceed:


GETTING FACTS STRAIGHT:

How many died in those Inquisition? and also how many are tortured?^^
According to catholicbridge.com:

According to public news reports the book's editor, Prof. Agostino Borromeo, stated that about 125,000 persons were investigated by the Spanish Inquisition, of which 1.8% were executed (2,250 people). Most of these deaths occurred in the first decade and a half of the Inquisition's 350 year history. In Portugal of the 13,000 tried in the 16th and early 17th century 5.7% were said to have been condemned to death. News articles did not report if Portugal's higher percentage included those sentenced to death in effigy (i.e. an image burnt instead of the actual person). For example, historian Gustav Henningsen reported that statistical tabulations of 50,000 recorded cases tried by nineteen Spanish tribunals between 1540-1700 found 775 people (1.7%) were actually executed while another 700 (1.4%) were sentenced to death in effigy ("El 'banco de datos' del Santo Oficio: Las relaciones de causas de la Inquisición española, 1550-1700", BRAH, 174, 1977). Jewish historian Steven Katz remarked on the Medieval Inquisition that "in its entirety, the thirteenth and fourteenth century Inquisition put very few people to death and sent few people to prison; 90 percent of its sentences were canonical penances" (The Holocaust in Historical Context, 1994).
During the high point of the Spanish Inquisition from 1478-1530 AD, scholars found that approximately 1,500-2,000 people were found guilty. From that point forward, there are exact records available of all "guilty" sentences which amounted to 775 executions. In the full 200 years of the Spanish Inquisition, less than 1% of the population had any contact with it, people outside of the major cities didn't even know about it. The Inquisition was not applied to Jews or Moslems, unless they were baptised as Christians.
If we add the figures, we find that the entire Inquisition of 500 years, caused about 6,000 deaths. These atrocities are completely inexcusable.

OFCOURSE, IT IS INEXCUSABLE! EVEN IF IT IS ONLY 10 OR 5 DIED, STILL THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING PEOPLE WHO DID NOT FOLLOWED AND OBEYED CHURCH DOCTRINES AND TEACHINGS!

Let us say this calculation is true that only 6,000 died, well, meaning to say half a million were tortured! i know all the people who are under investigation on those times were TORTURED!

and i know that its a very LOW estimation, why? The Catholic Church make it to low estimation so that they are free in the responsible of millions and millions of people died, in the estimation made by some scholars!

Am i lying about the Inquisition? well, let us see, from world news:

The Inquisition
The attempt to combat suspected apostates, Jews and Muslims at the time of the Reformation spawned tribunals in Europe and the new world that tortured and executed thousands. Ecclesiastical queasiness about flowing blood led to the use of racks, thumbscrews and red-hot metal instead of blades; 2,000 people were burned at the stake during the tenure of Spain's first grand inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada. from the article Pope says sorry for sins of church

Ask yourself, Is the Catholic Church really
CARES FOR THE HUMAN LIFE OR NOT?

Search Inquisition in your favorite search engines so you may know what am i talking about!