(11) One Academic Year â shall be construed to mean a program of at least 45 quarter-hour units, 30 semester-hour units, or 32 trimester-hour units or the equivalent thereof. One hour of didactic or 2 hours of clinical instruction shall equal one unit.
This article is about the Inquisition within the Catholic Church. For other uses, see Inquisition (disambiguation). The Inquisition was a group of institutions within the government system of the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy. It started in 12th-century France to combat religious sectarianism, in particular the Cathars and the Waldensians.
In the 16th century, Pope Paul III established a system of tribunals, ruled by the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Universal Inquisition, and staffed by cardinals and other Church officials. This system would later become known as the Roman Inquisition. In 1908 Pope Pius X renamed the organization: it became the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office. This in its turn became the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1965, which name continues to this day.