Holy Office

On the other hand, a very high function was given to this congregation in the new organization of the Curia, namely, the power of settling any doubts in relation to the competency of the other congregations, exception being made for the Holy Office, which is empowered to determine for itself all such doubts.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

In 1616, the same year that Copernicus 'book was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books, Galileo was called before Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, head of the Holy Office of the Inquisition and warned not to defend or teach Copernicanism.

Galileo Galilei Machamer, Peter 2009

Finally, in April 1633 Galileo was called before the Holy Office.

Galileo Galilei Machamer, Peter 2009

This graceful development of belief, emancipated from dogma and reducing so many substantial bodies to pale shades, so many articles once held as solid realities to the strange tenuity of dreams, was not the Christianity of Voltaire's time, any more than it was that of the Holy Office.

Voltaire 2007

We know that he could not venture to visit Italy, in consequence of his just fear lest the Inquisition should throw their redoubtable foe into prison, and the parliaments of Toulouse and Abbeville had perpetrated juridical murders as iniquitous as any of the proceedings of the Holy Office.

Voltaire 2007

Louis de Paramo, one of the most respectable writers and most brilliant luminaries of the Holy Office, relates, in the second chapter of his second book, that God was the first institutor of the Holy Office, and that he exercised the power of the preaching brethren, that is of the Dominican Order, against Adam.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

He had other letters from Rome for the chief officers of the court; his patents as legate were duly sealed and signed; and he exhibited the most ample powers for creating a grand inquisitor and all the judges of the Holy Office.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Adam was deprived of the immovable property he possessed in the terrestrial paradise, and hence the Holy Office confiscates the property of all whom it condemns.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Thus, the Holy Office was founded on July 21, 1542 by Paul III, and its procedures have remained the same since that date.

Romanism: the pre-conciliar curial mentality Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

For a long time the Holy Office treated him with reserve, even contempt.

The Feast of Saint (Padre) Pio Mike L 2005