The pope practically ran Europe during the middle ages.
This doesn't make it right...he was completely wrong in killing anyone...but they aren't his people...
although i'm not christian, i can tell you this... everyone on the earth is the "pope's people"
the pope has no borders and the vatican is a country of it's own, independent of any other country.
in the middle ages, it was the pope who crowned the kings of europe.
That's a BIG negative, ghostrider.
I am NOT one of the pope's people. I consider him to be an agent of evil. Noone can claim divinity, or claim to represent GOD. Only God can represent himself. Anything else is a farce, and a mockery of God's plan for us to have a relationship with him. How can you possibly intimately know God, and try to understand what his will is, if you have a flawed man telling you?
Ask the altar boys who were raped by "God's representatives".