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I went to a catholic college. We had manditory religion classes. One of those classes was called the history of the papacy. Here is the bottom line (summarizing 2000 years of history): The pope didn't originally have any secular power and didn't seek any. The situation sort happend because he stepped into a power vacum created by the roman leaders. Over time having secular power made the papacy corrupt, decadent and inmoral. It hit bottom around the time of Leo X who declared "as God has seen to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it". When the pope was finally striped of secular power, we started viewing the Papacy with much more moral athority.
Religious people in politcs don't make politics better, they make religion worse.
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