I'm working my way through CV Wedgwood's The Thirty Years War - the Pope who occupied the Vatican in the 1620s really had his work cut out maintaining the unity of Catholic Europe while ensuring the Habsburg Empire didn't become too powerful - a fear that caused fellow Catholic power France to ally with protestant nations on occasion
I'm working my way through CV Wedgwood's The Thirty Years War - the Pope who occupied the Vatican in the 1620s really had his work cut out maintaining the unity of Catholic Europe while ensuring the Habsburg Empire didn't become too powerful - a fear that caused fellow Catholic power France to ally with protestant nations on occasion
"No. The Pope is not a CEO. " The Pope like the King of England is a person who has perpetual (unbroken) succession - never dies ...