I justified it as a tribunal set up to discipline unworthy members of the Church and traitors against the state. But I pointed out that I did not justify abuses of power by some of its officials.
Torture was not one of its main activities. Nor was corporal punishment employed as a penalty of heresy as such. Insofar as a heretic was also an offender against the state, he was subject to state penalties. I cannot go more deeply into this question now, but it is evident that you are not fully informed on the subject of the Inquisition and its historical setting.
It is certain that the treatment of heresy was not as you imagine it to have been. But granting, for the sake of argument, that the clerics did behave in an unchristian way, the fact remains that their conduct was not in accordance with their Catholic religion, and they, therefore, deserve censure, not the Church they unworthily represented in such conduct.
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