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"So what if the Pope is a spiritual leader?" the hardline nationalist politician continued. "The point at issue was his Polish origin. No-one was attacking the Roman Catholic Church, Rome or the Vatican. After all, he was specially put in place there. There has never been a pope from Eastern Europe. We had a Spaniard, a German, but this was done specially...in order to influence Poland through this high spiritual post and to wrest it from the Soviet Union."

---Vladimir Zhirinovsky, deputy speaker of the Russian State Duma and leader of the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party from http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Religion&loid=8.0.248760488&par=0

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Some conspiracy theorists/freemasonry critics have made allusion to the RCC has having been controlled by illuminati -like groups with ulterior motives. Illuminati-type theories of occultic conspiracies also allude to spiritual warfare in their 'craft'. This article provides a slight bit of insight which would confirm such perspectives.