Questions tagged [papal-execution]
A person executed under a Pope-led government
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Who was the first person ordered executed by a Roman Catholic pope?
I was wondering who and when was the first person executed on orders of a pope or if there is no name information, when was the first such execution.
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Why doesn't the Catholic Church kill heretics anymore?
So the Catholic church used their influence to sanction the execution of so-called "heretics" and now they do not. Somewhere in the middle they stopped supporting executions based on heresy.
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Who was the first Church Father to argue for executing heretics?
When was it first said in Christianity by a church leader that heretics must be put to death? Who came up with this idea and presented it?
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