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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
***it looks like he molested women***

Perhaps you were thinking of Innocent VIII (1484 - 1492)

Giovanni Battista Cibo was born in Genoa in 1432, the son of a Roman senator. As a young man he was somewhat licentious and had two illegitimate children, Franceschetto and Teodorina. But after young Cibo took orders he settled down. He became bishop of Savona in 1467, and in 1473 exchanged Savona for the see of Olfetta in Naples. He was created cardinal in 1473 by Sixtus IV. He chose the name of Innocent VIII.

or perhaps...

Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503)

Rodrigo Borgia became a priest (1468) but this didn’t prevent him from forming a close relationship with Vanozza de Catanei who, by the way, was already married. Her husband hung on to the relationship until 1476, by which time Vanozza had borne two of the four children she would eventually have with Rodrigo the Cardinal. These were: Giovanni (1474), Cesare (1476), Lucrezia (1480) and Giofre (1481).

Once Rodrigo decided to seek the Papacy he had to dispose of his mistress. So he made a good choice of a husband for her. He didn’t want to discontinue the relationship with Vanozza, only make it discreet so that his chances of becoming Pope wouldn’t be jeopardized. He obviously was concerned with appearances.



39 posted on 01/03/2004 11:27:32 AM PST by drstevej
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To: drstevej
Momma mia!!! Rodrigo, Vanozza, and particularly Cesare (1476) and Lucrezia (1480) were the original Soprano family. Actually, Cesare was an early Sonny Corleone prototype, and his sister, Lucretia had a problem keeping husbands due to him because he kept murdering them. Fortunately that was all before the doctrine of papal infallibility.

(The problem with stone throwing is that we all have thin glass windows.)

45 posted on 01/03/2004 11:43:07 AM PST by xJones
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To: drstevej
There's one glaring difference in your Catholic jihad: Catholics did not follow corrupt clergy into heresy. We condemn them.

Protestants embraced Luther and his revolutionary views.

Ready for some more quotes from the "Christian" Luther?
62 posted on 01/03/2004 12:51:49 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
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