Bologna 1858, a Jewish boy is kidnapped by the Inquisition. His father takes up a struggle begun by Napoleon 60 years earlier. The emperor nearly succeeds in dismantling the inquisition and securing its secret files, but the popes regain their earthly powers. Decades later a desperate father will fight to get back his son. The boy becomes a symbol for an embattled pope. The jewish father and the emperor unleash the forces that bring about the end of the inquisition.

Venice – 1522. Capital of tolerance and Renaissance. And the centre for smugglers dealing in the banned literature of the protestant reformation. The church’s most powerful weapon will be a new type of inquisition. Controlled by the pope himself. He will use it to curtail the spread of a competing religion and eliminate those, who betray the faith. It will stop the flow of new ideas let loose by the printing press. And repress the birth of modern scientific thought. A new campaign in the battle for the souls of Europe’s Christians is about to begin.

Fernando and Isabel proclaim themselves the Catholic Monarchs. In the war to drive the remaining Muslims from the south of the Kingdom their scapegoats become the Conversos, Jews who have converted to Christianity and who are now accused of being traitors and heretics secretly trying to undermine the Church. The Spanish Inquisition is born and a campaign of terror begins.

In the southwest of what is not France, in a time when the Church of Rome has proclaimed itself the one true religion, heresy has taken hold. The Pope sends the “Inquisitors of Heretical Depravity” to exterminate the heresy. Unbelievers are hunted down, condemned and burned. In 1308 a whole village is taken prisoner of the Inquisition. No one is safe. From the Secret Files: the extraordinary revelations of village life under the Inquisition.

Sadly they are back thanks to our on fire for Jesus Ecumenical teams. Due to age restriction, this can only be viewed on YOUTUBE.