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| | John-Paul II: The Crisis In Roman Catholicism And The Last Pope |
 | | Compared to so many scandalous and criminal Popes of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Celestine III (1191-98), Innocent III (1198-1216), Alexander VI (1492-1503), Julius II (1503-1513), Leo X (1513-21), to name but a few, he was a man of Christian values, as was seen in his illness. |
 | | Here Pope John Paul II leaves a largely bankrupt organization (and not only in the financial sense), desperately short of clergy, and a people who, where they have not entirely lapsed, are often in a state of revolt and apostasy. |
 | | The first of these is Celestine II (1143-4) and Pope John-Paul II is the 110th. |
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