he explained to his flock that the catholics had perfected the science of torture during the inquisition ; that the inquisitors had burned the true faithful at what he called the smoking-uh stake right up until the end of the nineteenth century , when heroic protestants ( baptists , mostly ) had made them stop ; that forty different popes through history had known their own mothers and sisters , and even their illegitimate daughters , in-uh unholy sexual congressuh ; that the vatican was built on the gold of protestant martyrs and plundered nations .