the spanish inquisition... how did it end?

Question

i have heard many different endings to the spanish inquisition..which one is the real one? which napoleon did it? or was it isabella II? plz include sources!!! (do not write wikipedia.org plz b/c it doesnt have the right answer...thanks 10 points for forst one wid right answer!!! =)

Answer 1

*** g86 4/22 p. 23 The Terrifying Inquisition ***

Six Centuries of Terror

Thus, the inquisitorial machinery was set in motion in the first half of the 13th century C.E. and was used for several centuries to crush anyone who spoke or even thought differently from the Catholic Church. It spread terror throughout Catholic Europe. When, toward the end of the 15th century, the Inquisition began to calm down in France and other countries of Western and Central Europe, it flared up in Spain.

The Spanish Inquisition, authorized by Pope Sixtus IV in 1478, was first directed against the Marranos, or Spanish Jews, and the Moriscos, or Spanish Muslims. Many of these, who had adopted the Catholic faith out of fear, were suspected of continuing to practice their original religion secretly. In time, though, the Inquisition was used as a terrifying weapon against Protestants and any other dissenters.

From Spain and Portugal the Inquisition spread to the colonies of these two Catholic monarchies in Central and South America and elsewhere. It ended only when Napoleon invaded Spain at the beginning of the 19th century. It was temporarily restored after Napoleon fell but was finally suppressed in 1834, only a century and a half ago.

*** Footnote ***

The last victim was a hapless schoolmaster who was hanged in Valencia in 1826 for using the phrase “Praise be to God” instead of “Ave Maria” in school prayers.

Answer 2

In Spain, the Inquisition remained operative into the nineteenth century. Originally called into being against secret Judaism and secret Islam, it served to repel Protestantism in the sixteenth century, but was unable to expel French Rationalism and immorality of the eighteenth. King Joseph Bonaparte abrogated it in 1808, but it was reintroduced by Ferdinand VII in 1814 and approved by Pius VII on certain conditions, among others the abolition of torture. It was definitely abolished by the Revolution of 1820.

Answer 3

The Catholic Church still has the inquisition except they don't burn people at the stake anymore. I think they just excommunicate people for heresy or abortion. It’s now called called the “Holy Office” or “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Office
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith
Our current Pope Benedict XVI lead the modern Inquisition under Pope John Paul II which is suppose to protect the faith and doctrine of the Catholic Church against Reformation.