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The papacy almost wasn’t. In the last years of the 18th century, the entire idea of the Popes of Rome as leaders of the Roman Catholic Church was down to its very last chip and was a close as you could possibly get to walking away from the table.
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•History of the Papacy/Diptychs Fun Fact – About a 1,000 years before what we are going to talk about in today’s episode. There was a major argument in the church whether the laity should participate along side the clergy of Rome in electing a new pope. For a time, it was ruled that there should be universal suffrage for papal elections. By universal suffrage, I mean only the nobility and the power of papal elections would revert back to only the clergy in not too long, but one step forward, right?
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