Especially when you look at the string of corrupt pre-Reformation Popes who were obsessed with building political and economic power to the neglect of affairs of the Church.
By the time the 30 years war ended (1648), these corrupt Popes were gone and the new breed was concentrated on affairs of the Church and saving Europe from the invasion of Muslim hordes later that same century.
There was neither an evil nor a corrupt Pope elected until Pope Frank came on the scene just three years ago when the College of Cardinals felt it would be fashionable to elect one from a third world country (Argentina) who still had ancestral ties to a traditional country (Italy).
I am not a Catholic but I always had a sympathy for Catholisism because I felt that the Catholics kept their faith - that is until the present Pope. Terrible. We do not need more political correctness and lax morals.