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Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History PB_Gift_Guide the hush money offered byAs we all know and as many of our well established textbooks have argued for decades, the Inquisition was one of the most frightening and bloody chapters in Western history; Pope Pius XII was anti Semitic and rightfully called Hitlers Pope, the Dark Ages were stunting the progress of knowledge to be redeemed only by the secular spirit of the Enlightenment. The religious Crusades were an early example of the rapacious Western thirst for riches and