A Question for Catholics

Originally posted by no1marauder
What better for LH to confess then the sins of the RCC? Here's a very beautiful story of enlightened Inquistional justice told by Inquistor (and a damn fine one!) Bernard Gui:

The above-said Agnes did not wish to swear an oath on the command of my said lord bishop, even though he gave her ample opportunity to do so, but said that she would ne ...[text shortened]... ntence passed on her above confessions. The said Agnes accepted this day purely and simply.
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Source?

EDIT: Never mind.

EDIT2: Btw, the narrator is not Bernard Gui.

Originally posted by lucifershammer
Source?

EDIT: Never mind.

EDIT2: Btw, the narrator is not Bernard Gui.

Hey, you're right - it was the Bishop Jacques Fornier. The stories are linked from this site http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1s.html#Medieval%20Heresy.

I have read that there are similar stories in one or both of Gui's books but I haven't found them online. Since you sem to have no problem accessing RCC documents, perhaps you could share some stories of the progressive types of interrogations and happy results described by Inquistor Gui in his book(s).