:^) I agree, and it merely scratches the surface. The Medici brothers were still in their late teens when the Pope okayed the contract to kill them. That was a mere 547 years ago.
That was a mere 547 years ago.
In the history of Christianity, that’s a pretty long time ago, almost as long ago as the Reformation and the birth of Protestantism. If one has to go that far back to find an instance of a Pope putting out a contract on someone, I’d say the papacy has done pretty good in this area.