This is why it is so offensive and wrong when people claim it was secular authorities rather than the Roman Catholic Church who killed Hus. Roman Catholic prelates jailed Hus, tried him for heresy (at an ecumenical council), and then handed him over for execution in consequence of their guilty verdict. On the day of Hus’s sentence, the proceedings opened with a sermon from the bishop of Lodi, who preached from Romans 6:6, “that the body of sin must be done away,” in which the bishop proclaimed—using lurid imagery like rotting flesh, cancer, and poison—that the extermination of heretics was
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