DVD REVIEW

By Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT (Website: www.toughissues.org)

Of the DVD “The Inquisition: 605 Years of Papal Torture and Death” (2007) which can be obtained

Through the Berean Beacon (Director, Richard Bennett, ex-Dominican priest of 22 years)

Updated: February 16, 2009

(All emphasis is mine unless otherwise stated.)

Papal Rome (i.e., the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church) brought the world over six centuries (1203-1808) of brutal torture through a mechanism called the “holy” Office of the Inquisition. (The tortures were so cruel and inhuman that they would put many savage pagan societies to shame!) During those 605 years of Papal Inquisition, up to 50 MILLION innocents perished under this monstrous “holy” office. According to Roman Catholic author Peter de Rosa, this institution of torture and brutality was blessed and authorized by 80 consecutive popes! Targets of the Inquisition included Moslems, Jews, Protestants, Orthodox Christians, and those Bible-believing Christian groups who refused to recognize the ecclesiastical “authority” of the pope, and who put their faith in the Holy Scriptures rather than in a corrupt ecclesiastical hierarchy (i.e., Papal Rome). The Albigensian and Waldensian Christians were two of the Bible-believing Christian groups that were targeted for death and destruction by Papal Rome. The Albigenses were exterminated during a brutal religicide (i.e., a religious genocide) – called a “crusade” – that was orchestrated by Papal Rome from 1208 to 1226 in southern France. Papal Rome nearly exterminated the Waldenses (called the “Vaudois” in the French language – meaning the “valley people”) in southeastern France and northwestern Italy in the 1500s. Relatively few Waldenses survived the numerous military campaigns of papal armies. (The few who did survive did so by fleeing deep into the Alps – the mountain system in south-central Europe.)

However, Papal Rome’s torture and slaughter have not been limited to those dates (1203-1808) of the “official” operation of the office of Inquisition. In fact, Papal Rome carried out a modern-day Inquisition in the 1940s in the Roman Catholic Fascist State of Croatia. The Roman Catholic Church and the Croatian Fascist Ustashi State worked side by side in planning and orchestrating the torture and slaughter of up to ONE MILLION innocent Serb Orthodox Christian men, women, elderly, and children. The Ustashi brutality and savagery sickened even battle-hardened German troops who came across these Roman Catholic massacres of innocent Serb Orthodox Christians! Indeed, Franciscan priests, monks, and friars often led the Roman Catholic Ustashi “killer squads” in savage massacres of Serb Orthodox Christians that included the most brutal forms of torture and execution. Serb Orthodox Christian men, women, and children were skinned alive, buried alive, and burned alive, etc. Serb Orthodox priests were crucified on wooden doors. Eyes were torn from the poor Serb Orthodox Christian victims in order to make necklaces for their Roman Catholic Ustashi murderers!

This 58-minute DVD (produced in 2007; in color), using outstanding graphics, illustrations, actual photographs, and stirring music, tells the story of the savagery of both the 605-year “official” Inquisition and of the Roman Catholic religicide in Croatia from 1941 to 1945. (There are numerous illustrations and photographs of the actual torture devices used during the Inquisition.) Speakers on this DVD include Richard Bennett (author and former Roman Catholic priest of 22 years) and Michael de Semlyen (author of several books). Everyone on this planet should view this DVD, because history has a nasty habit of “repeating itself”. As Michael de Semlyen states on this DVD: “And a problem for the Church today is that we ignore history at our peril.” (For more information about Papal Rome’s bloody history, please read my article “Bloody Hands & Wicked Hearts” on www.toughissues.org.)

This DVD is only $8 (includes S&H to U.S. locations). (You are permitted to make copies.) To order a copy, please make check or money order payable to “Richard Bennett”, and mail it to: Richard Bennett // P.O. Box 192 // Del Valle, TX 78617. (Their website is www.bereanbeacon.org.)