The Popes Characters

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The Pope is the supreme head of the Catholic Church, the representative of Jesus Christ on earth. His word is sacred to Christians and his office irrevocable.
However this has not always been the case, as we have seen multiple times through history. As a result of papal schisms, several popes were sometimes in office at the same time during the Middle Ages - invoking and cursing each other and claiming to be the one, sovereign and true head of the entire Catholic Church. For secular rulers, then, adherence to a particular pope was more a matter of politics than faith.

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