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The Rise and Fall of the Inquisition
The use of torture to extract confessions was not officially sanctioned until 1215 at the Fourth Lateran Council. Pope Innocent III decreed that all property belonging to a convicted heretic would be forfeited to the Church. With the founding of Dominic's holy order of mendic and friars, the Inquisition was ready to begin its work in earnest.