RE: Why do cardinals get to elect the Pope?
March 13, 2019 at 1:52 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2019 at 1:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-finishing up my thought above...you have to give the funny hat club credit on this one because it was absolutely the case that secular authorities represented an erosion of the church on practical and ideological grounds. They never managed to get rid of the problem because the corruption was also calling from inside the house, and for the secular rulers of the time, a good position within the church was a great place to house their siblings (potential rivals for their authority) and if those people thn rose through the ranks they would gain the very position of power that the church had manufactured to limit those family's influence...only, now, the power was increased because fewer people could dilute the vote.
(I'm being very general and brief, above, as well as covering a wide breadth of time and change inside and outside of the church)
(I'm being very general and brief, above, as well as covering a wide breadth of time and change inside and outside of the church)
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