Pope: Boniface VIII

Popes: Boniface VIII #191, VRP Catholic Media. Series on the supreme pontiff, from St. Peter to John Paul II. Taken from, Popes through the Ages, Third Edition, (1980, Joseph S. Brusher, S.J.).
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The Popes and the Kings fought over who gets to drain the lands of of their wealth. Both the kings and the popes were excessively self-indulgent.

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That is one way of looking at it, though peasants needed the protection of lords and the institutional apparatus the Church provided.