The Catholic Church

For a given value of "control"

>>3266162
>This controlled almost the entirety of Europe from the 789-1789
not really

>>3266245
Tell me why nearlu every king or emperor needed to be crowned by a high ranking cleregy official in this time then?

>controlled
>No one really gives a shit what you think unless you threaten excommunication, even then it's a minor inconvenience
>Emperor you crowned often makes his own Pope to get around your bullshit
What power

>>3266260
>often makes his own pope
>literally once

Unless you want to count the schism of the crown of England creating their own church.

>>3266260
it meant monks couldn't operate in said property which meant you couldn't be redeemed after going to war since nobody would pray for you aka you're a heretic now and everyone hates you

>>3266277
>Once
From 789-1789 there were 28 dickhead

>>3266289
Learn to read.

Discussion was about how many times a pope was delegated by a non clerical official such as a long or emperor. Not how many popes there were

>>3266320
If the Catholic Church was so powerful how come there were 28 anti-popes? The discussion is bullshit, the clergy was powerful because of their land holding, not the Vatican, it's not like the Lutherans or Anglicans suddenly became irrelevant because they changed head of church

>>3266327
Is the simple fact that even 1 anti pope was created to try and defect the power of the church not proof that there was more than just power from land holding?

>>3266356
No, not really, it demonstrates the total lack of authority the church hierarchy had over their own corenated monarchs

>>3266162
AHAHAHAHHAHAHA THOSE SHITTY COMMIEBLOCKS

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