Of course, it cannot be a hundred percent faultless, but it's not too bad for an apologetic article on the Inquisition. You can't find many in English that are as favorable as this one.

Nevertheless, it's true that the Inquisition was popular. It kept us from error and heresy and, not only that, as Menéndez y Pelayo said, it also kept us from having on our soil the religious wars that ravaged Europe.

On the Inquisition being popular:

Popularidad de la Inquisición