VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Roman Inquisition and the Index of Forbidden Books obviously [sic] do not represent the brightest chapters in Catholic history, but newly published documents from Vatican archives should help scholars distinguish between the truth and the dark legends. Hundreds of documents detailing the church's investigations of individuals and of written works during the Roman Inquisition have been published -- most of them for the first time -- in a new series released by the Vatican.
Reproducing records from the Inquisition's activities -- records held in the formerly secret archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith -- the series hopes to shed light on how the Roman Inquisition really worked and to dispel age-old biases.
http://www.uscatholic.org/news/2010/05/inquisition-and-index-vatican-records-shed-light-dark-legend
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