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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
Persecuting heretics isn't really a monk thing even in stereotype. But a Papal inquisitor who scrupulously investigates reports of assault and murder by witchcraft and only lays charges if he establishes beyond reasonable doubt that the accused really was trying to curse (or poison!) someone
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Most of the inquisitors during the renaissance were diocesan clergy or Dominican Friars. It's become almost a default perception that inquisitors should be monastics... but friars are technically not monastics.
Friars aren't monks, but most people don't know (and some can't grasp) the difference between Friars, Monks, and Cenobites... So the popular misconception (helped by Connery in
The Name of the Rose) is that they were monks.