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25 May 2003
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‘Good morning ... welcome to Crossroads’
Pockets of ‘very deep poverty’ - Tim Fischer launches Vinnies Winter Appeal
Time, place right for launch, to be sure, to be sure
Exploring faith at Branches
Young need education on media: Br Kelvin
‘Advocate for poor’
Pope honours Sir William, Lady Deane
Sculpture tribute to nuns
Inside the Inquisition archives
Edmund Rice superannuation forum
Bishops focus on asylum seekers, racism
Leagues club buys dignity for destitute
Catholic University produces second Bible aid in Chinese
Caritas calling: Uganda needs help
Spirituality and suicide
Casimir, De La Salle quick to respond
Yell! For fresh tunes
Editorial: Without fear or favour
Letters: Depth of understanding
Conversation: Molly Griffiths - retiree and Compeer volunteer - Sunday outings, music ... that’s what friends are for
A call for volunteers
What the single life can teach us
Serra clubs ‘foster spiritual growth’
Obituary: Trangie’s priest was ordained ‘to serve all God’s people’
Celebrating 200 years of Mass appeal
The Rosary - ‘a treasure to be rediscovered’
Scalabrinians choose new leaders
Media studies ‘can play a major role’
Inside the Inquisition archives
What kind of people were the inquisitors, judges, persecutors and censors of the Inquisition? What motivated them? What goals did they pursue?
In January 1998, the Vatican opened the secret archives of the Inquisition.
For the first time ever, a camera team was allowed to enter the rooms of the secretum secretorum, the “most secret of secrets”, which houses trial files, letters and countless notes on popes and heretics, spies and informers, inquisitors and persecuted thinkers.
SBS TV begins a new three-part series The Secret Inquisition, at 7.30pm on Tuesday, June 3, telling the story of the Inquisition from the perspective of both the victims and their judges.
This first episode - Flames of Faith - looks at the first century of the Roman Inquisition, from its beginnings in 1542 to 1600, the year the philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake.
The main focus is on Grand Inquisitor Giulio Antonio Santori, a man so feared even his supporters trembled before him.
Episode two centres on the story, neverbefore told in a documentary, of the great reformer Pope Benedict XIV and the inquisitor Lorenzo Ganganelli (later Pope Clement XIV).
The last episode portrays the dramatic transition of the 1960s from the Inquisition of old to a new, reformed institution, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The Secret Inquisition SBS, 7.30pm June 3.