college of cardinals.....

ok, so i must be living under a bridge...for i was shocked on the way home from church to have the history of the college of cardinals recapped on npr during my drive home from church...including the part where the college used to be known as the inquisition.......this is distressing news.....that the new pope's former job...in another age....would be in the torturing of heretics....or at least those who had doubts as to the validity of notions held to be gospel by the catholic braintrust........sadly.....my current fear is that there are right-winger who miss the old ways of torturing heretics....and would happily resign us evil liberals to the rack or the cahterine wheeel until we renounce our wicked ways........i shouldn't spread that idea too far or wide.....as tom delay seems bent on punishing all who are in his path to political posterity.........