Vatican history reveals bloody, corrupt battles for church power

[dArKeR]

The stately nobility of the election about to unfold at the Vatican - eagerly watched by world leaders and members of other faiths - is all the more amazing because of the centuries of corruption, greed and murder in its past.

This first papal election of the new millennium is the crowning glory in a papal history that survived enough bizarre twists to fill a dozen sequels to Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code."

"In some past elections, people behaved very badly," the Rev. John O'Malley, a noted Catholic historian, said this week from his office at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Massachusetts. "Right up through John Paul II, popes have been trying to tie up the loose ends of the process."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=krwashbureau/_bc_relig_pope_conclaves_wa

I wonder why no one questions a religious group which uses a substitue but drinks blood and eats flesh?

[blogbear]

1. The pope and 'church' were safe and comfy during the Plague..

of the Dark Ages..At another historic time there were three popes at the same time..Can you imagine?

[SouthernDem2004]

2. Hmmm Its not like its a big secret. Even their history books talk about

it in detail. Big deal.