This from the head of the organization that brought us the Inquisition.
They still own how many of those instruments of torture? The buildings the wonderful deeds were performed in? The property they stole, the ill gotten gains of the “Holy Roman Church”? They still profit from the investments made with them and the rents and such they receive.
No offense to Catholics, but the position held by the current Pope is not the one held by Peter. They lost that claim about 2000 years ago..
The Inquisition was part of a successful, centuries-long effort to drive the Mohammedans out of Spain. Its purpose was to find "conversos,," i.e., Mohammedan and Jewish sympathizers who had falsely converted to Catholicism to prevent expulsion from Spain. This is something that should be more comprehensible to us today, in comparison to the pre-9/11 era.
The Inquisition was a model of juridical fairness for its time. Compare the recently discovered trial records from the Inquisition to the contemporaneous witch-trials in Europe.
You can watch the 1994 BBC special, "The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition" for free on YouTube or read about it here.