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4. Many of these "devout" politicians would have done well in the 19th century Papal States.

Reply to es35 (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 12:31 AM

Mar 2016

Specifically before the Unification of Italy, when the Popes were far right despots that did everything they could to hold on to their temporal political power.

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