Vatican City -- upon June 15, 2004,...

Vatican City -- upon June 15, 2004, the Vatican released a 783page investigation of the facts about the Inquisition on 31 scholars from Europe and North America, Catholics and non-Catholics. The work was subordinate to the direction of Professor Agostino Borromeo from Rome's La Sapienza University, and is published in the languages in which the addresses were delivered at a symposium in October 1998

"The symposium," the pontiff wrote in a letter for the occasion, "was in answer to the desire I squeeze outed in the apostolic letter Tertio Millennio Adveniente. It is appropriate that the Church should become more