Order Jiang links to identifying Cathars and feeding the Inquisition.
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Dominicans
Order Jiang links to identifying Cathars and feeding the Inquisition.
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The Church answers Cathar resistance with Dominicans and the Inquisition, an interrogation society that identifies dissent and burns those who refuse recantation.
The Dominican Order and Medieval Inquisition are described as replacing indiscriminate crusade violence with written testimony, interrogation, and identification of specific heretics.
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"...establish a new society led by Francis of Assisi called the Dominicans, okay, the Dominicans, which goes and basically tries to figure out who..."
"the Dominican Order was created, just like the Jesuits, in order to deal with the Cathar heresy. These are extremely well -educated people who..."
"But with the power of the pen, you're able to write everything down. If you're able to take testimony, think of a police interrogation,..."
"...okay but fortunately in about the year 1700 there was a Dominican priest who made it his mission to write down this oral tradition..."
"...okay? The main invention, the main response is something called the Dominican Order, okay? So you might have heard of the Jesuits, right? The..."
"And because the Dominicans were educated, they could write everything down. Okay? They could write everything down. And, they were tenacious. They were persistent...."
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