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Eamon Duffy on Papal Power
July 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Here is an interesting passage from Eamon Duffy’s Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997; revised edition 2001):
A crucial influence in the development of the idea that the Pope himself might be free from error came from the Franciscan debates about poverty. Successive popes had ruled in favour [...]
