This interview was originally broadcast on Jan. 23, 2012. The individuals who participated in the first Inquisition 800 years ago kept detailed records of their activities. Vast archival collections ...

Torture, burning at the stake and other punishment for the faithful condemned as witches or heretics by church tribunals during the Inquisition was not as widespread as commonly believed, the Vatican ...

Marc Thiessen rightly points out that one Spanish Inquisition water-torture method in which water was funneled down a victim's throat until his or her body was bursting with liquid is not what the CIA ...

Matt Yglesias and Marc Thiessen have been fighting over Matt's calling waterboarding a technique used during the Spanish Inquisition. Yglesias: I suppose the natural question to ask..is why these kind ...

In Elizabethan and Protestant propaganda, the Spanish Empire figured as a threat to all that was good in the world. Wherever politics and the judicial system overlap, there is bound to be controversy.

As outlined in our previous post, there are very few tales as tall as the tales told of the Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition and Catholic Spain. Among the many, many lies of the Black Legend of ...

Under Pope Francis' leadership, the Catholic Church continues the struggle to rid itself of its past images of triumphalism and war as it seeks to become the church of the poor. The battle is to stop ...