(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.
How did inquisitions come to be used in dealing with cases of heresy? The medieval inquisition started life in a series of papal bulls on heresy, in particular Lucius IIIâs Ad abolendum of 1184 and Innocent IIIâs Cum ex officii nostri of 1207. These defined the crime of heresy, imparted the duty of the church to root it out and equated it with treason against the state.