One of the apparently serious criticisms of our Church is in the matter of the the Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade. It was a 20-year military campaign ( 1209 – 1229 AD) initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, in the south of France.the matter. The record needs to be set straight. Listen to this spirited defense of our Catholic Church’s position on the most strange heresies of this movement.