Inquisition, Crusades, & "Catholic Scandals" (Index Page)
Inquisition and Crusades
The Inquisition: Its Purpose and Rationale Within the Mediæval Worldview
Dialogue: Reflections on the Crusades, the Inquisition, and Slavery
The Controversial "Torture" Issue as Related to Catholic Development of Doctrine on the Treatment of Heretics (+ Part II)
The Crusades and World War II: An Instructive Ethical Analogy (Mark Shea)
Reflections on the Sack of Constantinople in 1204 and Lesser-Known Byzantine Atrocities
EXTERNAL LINKS
Catholic Encyclopedia: INQUISITION
The Inquisition and the Church (Joseph Jenkins)
A New Look at the Spanish Inquisition (Edward O'Brien)
The Spanish Inquisition: Fact Versus Fiction (Marvin R. O'Connell)
REMOTE MOTES AND PRESENT BEAMS (The Inquisition) (Ralph McInerny)
A New Industry: The Inquisition (Brian Van Hove)
The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition (Ellen Rice)
INQUISITION ON THE WEB (David Burr)
INQUISITION (James Hitchcock)
One Cheer for Inquisitions (Gerard Bradley)
Beyond the Myth of the Inquisition: Ours is the Golden Age (Brian Van Hove)
Dave Hunt and the Spanish Inquisition (Phil Porvaznik)
Status: Inquisition in the Catholic Church (Benjamin D. Wicker)
The Spanish Inquisition (Anne W. Carroll)
The Inquisition (William G. Most)
Aquinas and the Heretics (Michael Novak)
Who Burned the Witches? (Sandra Miesel)
Torture and Punishment as a Problem in Catholic Moral Theology: Part I. The Witness of Sacred Scripture (Fr. Brian W. Harrison)
Torture and Punishment as a Problem in Catholic Moral Theology: Part II. The Witness of Tradition and Magisterium (Fr. Brian W. Harrison)
Vatican II and Religious Liberty: Contradiction or Continuity? (Fr. Brian W. Harrison)
The Center is Holding / The Second Vatican Council and Religious Liberty (Fr. Brian W. Harrison)
Pius IX, Vatican II and Religious Liberty (Fr. Brian W. Harrison)
The Catholic Church's Consistent Doctrine on Religious Liberty (William G. Most)
Crusade Myths (Thomas F. Madden)
The Crusades 0101 (James Akin)
The Jews and the Crusaders: Medieval Shoah? (Vince Ryan)
The Crusades and Their Critics (James Hitchcock)
Rethinking the Crusades (Jonathan Riley-Smith)
The Real History of the Crusades (Thomas F. Madden)
Catholic Encyclopedia: CRUSADES
The Battle Over the Crusades (Robert P. Lockwood)
Crusades: Truth and the Black Legend (Vittorio Messori)
The Crusades (Anne W. Carroll)
The Meaning of the Crusade (G.K. Chesterton)
The Crusades: A Defensive Gesture
Crusades and Counter-Crusades (Paul Crawford)
Crusades: Additional Background (Paul Crawford)
Crusades: Legacy (Paul Crawford)
Crusades: Political and Military Background (Paul Crawford)
Crusading Vows and Privileges (Paul Crawford)
The First Crusade (Paul Crawford)
The Later Crusades (Paul Crawford)
How Could a God of Love Order the Massacre of the Canaanites?
Shouldn't the Butchering of the Amalekite Children be Considered War Crimes?
The Pedophilia / Sexual Scandal
My statement on the Catholic Sex Scandal : I would remind Catholics (and non-Catholic Christian allies) who are despairing over this dreadful scandal to recall that all great reform movements in the Catholic Church followed times of great immorality within its ranks (we Catholics being sinners and in constant need of God's grace, mercy, and help, along with everyone else). The terrible revelations now being exposed can potentially be a huge wake-up call to reform seminaries, Catholic educational institutions, and the priesthood from the inroads of theological modernism, false psychological thinking, "political correctness," heterodox, compromised teaching on sexuality, and relativist, non-traditional ethics and morality in general. Those scourges are the ultimate and long-term cause of these tragic events, and no informed Catholic that I know has ever denied that the Church (i.e., with regard to the beliefs and behavior of many of its members, not in its teachings) is suffering from a modernist crisis. I would note in passing that the fashionable, wrongheaded, agenda-driven calls for a married or female clergy have little to do with the current problem, and cannot resolve it, since upwards of 90% of the sexually-abused were teenage males. The problem obviously is something other than celibacy itself, or Clintonian urges towards heterosexual promiscuity. Having believed for a long time (based on historical hindsight) that spiritual and ecclesiological revival is coming in the 21st century, I think this unutterably tragic scandal can and will - by God's grace and mass repentance -- eventually be instrumental in leading to a great movement for reform, orthodoxy, and revival (Romans 8:28). The laity will likely play a large part in the coming revival, as they often have in the past.
Links to Articles Concerning the Catholic Pedophilia Scandal
Has the Clergy Sexual Scandal in the US Caused a Huge Drop or "Crisis" in Vocations?
Scandalous Sexual Misconduct Committed by Protestant Clergy (edited by Dave Armstrong)
Kevin Johnson Argues (Amazingly) That Episcopal Ecclesiology is a Key Explanation of the Allegedly "Systemic" Tragedy of Molesting Priests (+ Discussion)
"It Ain't Just Catholic Priests": More Resources on Shocking Statistics of Sexual Abuse and Molestation by Protestant (and Orthodox & Jewish) Clergy
Various Real or Imagined Catholic "Scandals"
Biblical Evidence for Sinners in the Church
Sins and Sinners in the Catholic Church
The "Bad Popes": How Many Of 'Em Were There? How "Bad" Were They? (+ Discussion)
Biblical Evidence For Building Expensive Church Buildings and Cathedrals (Dave Armstrong vs. "Grubb") (+ Discussion)
C.S. Lewis on Pagan Parallels to Christianity
Dialogue on Catholics' Supposed Simplemindedness, Arrogance, and "Triumphalism"
EXTERNAL LINKS
Development or Reversal? (Slavery) (Avery Cardinal Dulles)
The Popes and Slavery - Book Review (Leonard A. Kennedy)
A Response to John Noonan, Jr. Concerning the Development of Catholic Moral Doctrine (Usury, Marriage, Slavery, Religious freedom) (Patrick M. O'Neil)
Catholic Encyclopedia: SLAVERY AND CHRISTIANITY
Catholic Encyclopedia: ETHICAL ASPECT OF SLAVERY
On Slavery in the Old Testament (Luke Wadel)
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Pope Pius XII and the Nazi Holocaust / Persecution of Jews / Anti-Semitism
