What's the Truth About All This?

The medieval inquisition was a response to a particular heresy, al-Bagensianism. The Spanish inquisition made it into a Mel Brooks movie and well into an Edgar Allan Poe short story. And then the Roman inquisition, by which Galileo was tried. So in a way, we could say that Pope Benedict Emeritus, when he was Cardinal Rotzinger, was the Inquisitor General.