Colbert Warns Vance: Pope Will 'Go Inquisition On You'

On May 15th, 1252, Pope Innocent IV issued the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorized, but also limited, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.

On May 15th, 1252, Pope Innocent IV issued the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorized, but also limited, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.  The 1835 painting above, by Francesco Hayez, is titled: Valenza Gradenigo Before the Inquisition. — May 15, 1841: The first emigrant wagon train to make it to California left Independence, Missouri on a 1,730 mile journey over the Sierra Nevada mountain range.  In Idaho, the group div…

Colbert Warns Vance: Pope Will 'Go Inquisition On You'

Colbert Warns Vance: Pope Will 'Go Inquisition On You' For Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show, CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed “Chaplain of the Colbert Nation” Father James Martin to discuss Pope Leo XIV. Both men agreed that one positive thing Leo brings to the papacy is that him being American will force President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance to confront their immigration beliefs, with Colbert ultimately declaring, “He’ll go Inquis…