A CBS News report on the Vatican's own 1998 symposium of fifty historians on the Inquisition, whose findings were published as a 783-page book in 2004; Professor Agostino Borromeo's reported figure of roughly one percent of some 125,000 Spanish heresy trials ending in execution, and Pope John Paul II's March 2000 public apology for "errors committed in the service of the truth through recourse to non-evangelical methods."
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Reliability TierEstablished mainstream news reporting on a public institutional event rather than a primary document or peer-reviewed scholarship, one tier below the Vatican's own published symposium findings or a dedicated academic reference. NotesAn established news organization reporting a public, corroborated institutional event, the Vatican's own historical commission and papal apology; the underlying facts are independently reported by other contemporary outlets covering the same 2000 Day of Pardon and 2004 symposium publication. 1 Citation
Publication Year URLhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/vatican-looks-back-at-inquisition/ 1 Sources
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- Religious Events, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Wars & Conflicts, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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