This week’s pope was once described as the epitome of a Christian gentleman, a man of universally recognized virtue, and a profound scholar. He was never one to back down from a fight, and stopped at nothing to reform a broken Church. 1000 years ago, that is.

 

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FURTHER READING:

<a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2009/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20091111.html">The Cluniac Reform</a> (Pope Benedict XVI) 
<a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/inv06.asp">Letter of Gregory VII to the German Bishops</a> (Yale Law Library) 
<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06791c.htm">Pope St. Gregory VII</a> (Catholic Encyclopedia) 
<a href="https://app.flocknote.com/note/762758">Pope St. Gregory VII</a> (Popes in a Year - Flocknote) 
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The Pope Who Outsmarted Napoleon (Servant of God, Pope Pius VII)

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