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To enforce Catholicism in Spain and in Spanish territories. Torture was considered legitimate by the inquisitors. As under the Soviets, everyone was afraid of informers. Many thousands were tortured and killed.

My colleague adds: The formation of the Jesuits and the following inquisition was a Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation. Sometimes this response is called the counter-reformation.

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