Interesting Fact of the Day:
If a “heretic” recanted, the Catholics would only chop their head off instead of burning them at the stake.
Sweet of them.
Source: Anabaptist History and Theology class
Updated to note: On reflection, I see that this post could be taken to mean that I am assigning the sins of medieval Catholics to present-day Catholics. Please don’t make that assumption. I am commenting more upon medieval sins in general (of which there were both Catholic and Protestant); in this case it happened to be a Catholic practice we were examining. I realize that Catholics have since recanted of such practices and I certainly don’t hold it against them.
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