Libro: Why Apologize for the Spanish Inquisition?

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Why Apologize for the Spanish Inquisition?
by Very Rev. Fr. Alphonsus Maria Duran, MJ, founder and General-Director of Miles Jesu, and Rev. Fr. Paul Mary Vota, MJ.
Paperback: 32 pages
Publisher: Eric Gladkowski February 1, 2000
ISBN: 0970223501



Algunas críticas:

Why Apologize for the Spanish Inquisition is an absolute MUST for any Catholic who has to deal with non-Catholics. More often than not, Protestants thrive and feed off of the ignorance of Catholics when it comes to the Glorious Spanish Inquisition. This book dispells the myths and lies about this most holy chapter in the history of the Church. Very scholarly, very informative. I highly recommend this book!

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Why Apologize for the Spanish Inquisition? This recently published booklet is as timely as it is informative. It will surprise and even shock many readers! It discloses amazing discoveries aired on the BBC Documentary about the Inquisition. It also brings together the shattering conclusions of historians from diverse backgrounds such as the agnostic historian Dr. Leo Moulin, the Catholic author Vittorio Messori, and the Protestant historian William Prescott.

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Extractos del libro:

PART I.
COMMONLY BELIEVED MYTHS

#2. The Myth of "Bloody Mary" vs "Good Queen Bess"

TRUTH. In his book, A History of the Reformation of England and Ireland, the Protestant historian William Cobbett speaks of the deceptive way in which Queen Mary Tudor and Queen Elizabeth I of England have been portrayed in their own English histories.

Concerning the two Monarchs he says, "her reign our deceivers have taught us to call the reign of 'Bloody Mary,' while they have taught us to call that of her sister the 'Golden Days of Good Queen Bess.' They have taken good care never to tell us that for every drop of blood that Mary shed, Elizabeth shed a pint; that the former gave up every fragment of plunder of which the deeds of her predecessors had put in her possession, and that the latter resumed this plunder again, and took from the poor every pittance which had by oversight been left to them; that the former never changed her religion, and that the latter changed from Catholic to Protestand and, then to Catholic again, and then back to Protestant; that the former punished people for departing from the religion in which she and their fathers had been born, and to which she had always adhered; and the latter punished people for not departing from the religion of her and their fathers, and which religion, too she herself professed and openly lived in even at the time of her coronation. Yet we have been taught to call the former 'bloody' and the latter 'good!' And is it not time, then, that this deception too injurious to our Catholic fellow-subjects and so debasing to ourselves, should cease?"
(Willian Cobbett, A History of the Reformation in England and Ireland, #223)


Another Protestant historian Willian Prescott says of Elizabeth I of England: "Elizabeth, inheriting a large share of the bold and bluff King Harry's temperament, was haughty, arrogant, coarse and irascible; Elizabeth was desperately selfish; she was incapable of forgiving, not merely a real injury, but the slightest affront to her vanity; and she was merciless in exacting retribution."
(Willian Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, Vol. II, Chpt. 16).



#3. The Myth of the Vicious, Criminal, Bloodthirsty Irish

TRUTH. From the time of the Protestant Revolt outright calumnies against the Irish were spread to make them look like vicious, criminal, bloodthirsty people. In a speech that Oliver Cromwell gave in Dublin prior to setting out to meet the Irish in battle he spoke, "of the great work against the barbarous and bloodthirsty Irish"
(Antonia Fraser, Cromwell, Our Chief of Men, Chpt. 13, Ireland: effussion of blood)

The English invaders saw themselves as, "Israelites about to extirpate the idolatrous inhabitants of Canaan" and that their peace and tranquility "had been rudely disturbed by the vicious actions of the native Irish population who thus deserved the retribution which was now falling upon them, or as Milton was to put it: the Irish by their own ..."

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"... historians are now discovering that the common notion of the Spanish Inquisition as some horrible, fanatical, all-encompasing bloodthirsty monster could not be further from the truth. Their conclusions come from the first-time ever study of the actual cases taken from the archives of the Inquisition itself... Studying the archives of the Inquisition demolished the previous image that all of us had."
BBC 1994 Television Documentary
"The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition"


"The reason why accurate information about the Inquisition fails to penetrate the popular mind is not such a mystery at all. Numerous people have a vested interest in keeping the traditional image alive, and unhappily some of them are Catholics. Those who resent the Church's claim to moral authority use as their most effective weapon the allegation of hypocrisy -- How can this Church which has the blood of millions on its hands dare to condemn abortion?"
James Hitchcock, Professor of History,
University of St. Louis, USA