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Looking at these liberals just confidently parrot whatever 10th grade “political science” education they got in school in response to any global event makes me appreciate the actual bourgeois intellectuals who have to hard carry these idiots.
The pope sorta used to be like a king of the papal states and had significant political, legal, commercial and economic influence for 100s of years. However, this was all based on the existence of a world where the Italian states and Spanish and other Catholic states had dominance in europe.
With the rise of British power, the basis of the pope’s power largely vanished beyond the soft power and legal loophole abilities he provided.
At least that’s what I know from my very limited knowledge of Christian history.