You are right about the heretics part. But he has a point in the sense that the Catholic Church mostly fought against witch hunts, look https://en.m.wikipedia.

You are right about the heretics part. But he has a point in the sense that the Catholic Church mostly fought against witch hunts, look https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Salazar_Fr%C3%ADas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Salazar_Fr%C3%ADas Alonso de Salazar Frías has been given the epithet "The Witches’ Advocate"[1] by historians, for his role in establishing the conviction, within the Spanish Inquisition, that accusations against supposed witches were more often rooted in dreams and fantasy than in reality, and the inquisitorial policy that witch accusations and confessions should only be given credence where there was firm, independent, corroborating evidence. He was probably the most influential figure in ensuring that those accused of witchcraft were generally not put to death in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spain. The Spanish Inquisition was one of the first institutions in Europe to rule against the death penalty for supposed witches. Its Instructions of 1614, which embodied Salazar's ideas, were influential throughout Catholic Europe.