Now Carafa could persuade the Pope to set up a Roman Inquisition, modelled on the Spanish Inquisition founded seventy years before, with Carafa himself as one of the Inquisitors-General. One of its functions (a function which remains to the present day in the Roman Inquisition’s rather more bland guise as the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) was to determine what the norm for theology was within the Catholic Church.
