Talk:Ad exstirpanda

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[edit] End of torture authorization

Anybody know when torturing was no longer authorized by the church? Was this also specifically decided or did the practice die out? Piet 13:41, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Malleus Maleficarum, a witch-prosecutors manual, "is notorious for its use in the witch hunt hysteria which peaked in the mid-16th through mid-17th centuries" but "was, in fact, condemned by the Inquisition in 1490". The RC church doctrine of papal infallibility means, I supose, that the Ad Exstirpanda bull cannot ever be anulled. (the texts in quotes are from Wikepedia) -- cuddlyable3

Cuddlyable3: papal infallibilty doesn't have anything to do with Ad Exstirpanda. Infallibility was not invoked in that document, nor was it a matter of faith and morals being proposed as necessary to be believed for salvation by the Pope speaking ex cathedra...Sigil7 13:12, 4 April 2007 (UTC)