Dealings with the Inquisition: A personal account of faith, freedom, and reform
This memoir recounts a dramatic escape from confinement and a long journey toward a changed faith. It blends vivid personal memories with hard questions about truth, power, and religion.
Through intimate scenes and careful reflection, you’ll see how one voice challenged centuries of church authority, faced ridicule, and sought to build a new path for Italian religious life. The narrative also shows the costs of reform, the pull of family, and the struggle to align conviction with action.
- A first‑hand view of imprisonment, liberation, and a return to one’s homeland
- A candid critique of legends about saints and the myths surrounding them
- A moving travelogue of faith, doubt, and a reforming heart
- A pastor’s perspective on religious change and its social impact
Ideal for readers of religious history, memoirs of reform, and 19th‑century theological debate.
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Excerpt from Dealings With the Inquisition: Or Papal Rome, Her Priests, and Her Jesuits; With Important Disclosures
At any rate, you may rest assured that, should I ever again be shut up in the Inquisition, no consideration will prevent me from giving a full account of all I may have seen or heard, as soon as I am released.
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It was in the month of July, 1842, that I was released, by order of Pope Gregory, from my first imprisonment in the dungeons of the Inquisition. On this occasion, one of the Dominican monks who serve the office of inquisitor inquired of me, with a malicious look, whether I, also, intended, one day, to write an account of the Inquisition, as a well-known author had done before me, with respect to Spielberg, in his celebrated work, "Le mie 'prigioni." Perceiving at once the object of this deceitful interrogation, which was only to afford a pretext for renewing my incarceration at the very moment when liberty was before me, I smiled at my interlocutor, and exclaimed, "How is it possible, Padre Inquisitore, you can imagine I can have any idea of vindicating myself on account of the imprisonment I have undergone? No, be assured, whatever injustice you may have committed toward me, I shall attempt no vindication. You know full well that in this country there exists no tribunal higher than your own: even that of conscience is silent here, and prostrate before you. Should I make my complaint elsewhere, and appeal to the justice of another land, how could I hope, unknown and unfriended as I am, that my story would be listened to? Distrust is natural to man. One only tribunal remains; from that neither you nor I can escape; and it is to that same tribunal that I shall be able to summon the pope and his cardinals. Nay, setting aside the idea of my own appeal, they will be summoned to appear by the great Judge himself.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book offers a gripping firsthand account of the author's experiences in the Roman Inquisition during the 19th century. The author, a staunch critic of the Catholic Church's doctrines and practices, was imprisoned for his beliefs, spending six months in the institution's notorious dungeons. This chilling narrative delves into the inner workings of the Inquisition, exposing its methods of torture, manipulation, and oppression. The author's imprisonment was a calculated act by the Church to silence dissent and force him back into its fold. The book goes beyond the personal experience to challenge the very foundation of the Catholic Church's authority. The author argues that the Church, especially in its Roman form, has consistently stifled intellectual freedom and persecuted those who dare to question its teachings. The author questions the validity of the Church's claims to infallibility and spiritual power, highlighting the hypocrisy of its actions in contrast to its rhetoric. The author's unwavering commitment to the truth and his defiance of the Inquisition's attempts to break him make for a compelling and thought-provoking read. This book offers a rare glimpse into the darkest corners of the Catholic Church, exposing its history of intolerance and revealing the persistent struggle for religious freedom. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781331249108_0
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