Has there ever been a Pope that wasn't a total powerhungry

>>1786473
Look

Here's the thing

The Pope is right, and you're wrong

Now pay your indulgences you stupid retard.

t. Johann Tetzel

>>1786473

Power is power, it attracts the absolute worst people like flies to delicious cake. Only when religious authority is strictly limited temporally, as in the Eastern Empire and Vatican City since WW2, does the title lose its appeal to power-hungry narcissists and psychopaths.

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>Has there ever been a Pope that wasn't a total powerhungry scumbag?
yes.

>>1786473

Absolutely; also, if you put them in the history flow, many of them were the most illuminate ruler in Europe at their time.

Even the infamous Leo X was an extraordinary good-hearthed ruler and diplomat even if he allowed the spread of the Reform.

Also the guy in your pic, Pius VII, was a brave man in a stormy time.

To me, the most brilliant Pope in modern history is Benedictus XIV.

Why would you call a power hungry person a psychopath? They might just be like Bismarck.

You wouldn't call Bismarck more insane than Wilhelm II, would you?

>>1786473
>Has there ever been a Pope that wasn't a total powerhungry scumbag

Has there ever been a Protestant who knows more about history than a handful of episodes that confirm his narratives?

While OP is exaggerating, it's interesting that the Catholic Church has, whenever more corrupt than it's neighbors or not, been prone to corruption, using its religious power for its own ends and tried to expand its secular domain on the cost of others.
Isn't it weird that a man that's the vicar of Christ on Earth have had such a big greed and lust for worldly power that he even was ready to try to wrestle the authority over Italy out of the hands of the emperor?