(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.
The basic accusation of the Inquisition was that Jews who converted to Christianity were still secretly Jewish. In Part 45, when we discussed the Crusades, we covered the war of the Church against the Muslims in the Middle East. Now we turn to the war of the Church against Muslims in Europe.We should note, however, that the very first Inquisition actually took place in 1233 under orders from Pope Gregory IX to combat a group of French-Christian heretics called âAlbigenses.â This first Inquisition was relatively mild and did not as a rule sentence people to death.