A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection. James Wolcott
At the fifteenth session, 5 June 1409, the Council of Pisa deposed the two pontiffs as schismatical, heretical, perjured, and scandalous; they elected Alexander V (1409–10) later that month. Source: Internet
In addition to being the head of the Church, the Pope became one of Italy's most important secular rulers, and pontiffs such as Julius II often waged campaigns to protect and expand their temporal domains. Source: Internet
It received papal visits from three successive supreme pontiffs: Pope John Paul II (1998.01), Pope Benedict XVI (2012.03) and Pope Francis (2015.09). Source: Internet
Even the early pontiffs, by these evidences, had claimed absolute and universal authority as vicars of Christ on Earth." Source: Internet
Seven of the cardinals secretly left Lucca and negotiated with the cardinals of Benedict XIII concerning the convocation of a general council by them, at which both pontiffs should be deposed and a new one elected. Source: Internet