Note 539 — Chapter X · POLITICAL ACTIVITY.
Reading edition
Hefele, Der Cardinal Ximenes, XVIII, p. 265 (Tübingen, 1851).
The most recent apologist, who assures us that the Church never used other than moral force, displays his accuracy by telling us that, in 1521, Leo X excommunicated Torquemada on account of his cruelty, against the protests of Charles V, and also that in England Henry VIII executed 70,000 victims and Queen Elizabeth 43,000.—G. Romain, L’Inquisition, son rôle religieux, politique et social, pp. 10, 11, 2e Edition, Paris, 1900.