The Bad Popes
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ISBN: 0750933372 / Publisher: Sutton Publishing, October 2003
The Roman Catholic Church has been in existence for two millennia and this institutional longevity is all the more remarkable given that a number of its leaders were, frankly, bad.
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Each of the popes considered in detail in this book, from the gentle hermit-pope Celestine V to the degenerate Rodrigo Borgia and the emperor-pope Boniface VIII, shared one heavy burden. They were not only the spiritual leaders of Europe but, through an audacious forgery (the so-called Donation of Constantine), they were also territorial princes - 'papal monarchs' - struggling to maintain control over an enormous section of Italy.
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