Editing Roman Inquisition (section)

==History==
The Roman Inquisition began in 1542 as part of the Catholic Church's Counter-Reformation against the spread of Protestantism, but it represented a less harsh affair than the previously established Spanish Inquisition.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.livescience.com/10145-sloppy-records-cast-galileo-trial-light.html| title = Hsu, Jeremy. "Sloppy Records Cast Galileo's Trial in New Light", ''Live Science'', September 30, 2010| website = [[Live Science]]| date = 30 September 2010}}</ref> 
In 1588,<ref>[http://aladinrc.wrlc.org/bitstream/handle/1961/9178/Beaudet_cua_0043A_10069display.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122075227/http://aladinrc.wrlc.org/bitstream/handle/1961/9178/Beaudet_cua_0043A_10069display.pdf|date=2015-01-22}} ''Dissertation C. Beaudet'', The Catholic University of America, 2010</ref> [[Pope Sixtus V]] established, with ''[[Immensa Aeterni Dei]]'', 15 [[congregation (Roman Curia)|congregation]]s of the [[Roman Curia]], of which the [[Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition]] was one. In 1908, it was renamed the [[Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office]]. In 1965, it was renamed again to the [[Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith]] and later renamed once again in 2022 to the [[Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith]].<ref>{{Cite web |title="Praedicate Evangelium" on the Roman Curia and its service to the Church and to the World (19 March 2022) {{!}} Francis |url=https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_constitutions/documents/20220319-costituzione-ap-praedicate-evangelium.html#Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=www.vatican.va}}</ref>

While the Roman Inquisition was originally designed to combat the spread of Protestantism in Italy, the institution outlived that original purpose, and the system of tribunals lasted until the mid 18th century, when pre-[[Unification of Italy|unification]] Italian states began to suppress the local inquisitions, effectively eliminating the power of the church to prosecute heretical crimes.