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| | Villains of the Vatican | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited |
 | | Further back, there was Pope Leo XIII, who, in the closing years of the 19th century, dashed fledgling hopes of reconciliation between the Church of England and the Church of Rome by declaring that all Anglican ordinations were "null and void", a judgment which, incidentally, still stands. |
 | | In 1034 Pope Leo IX wrote a long and scathing letter to his Orthodox opposite number, Patriarch Michael Cerularius, claiming that the latter's office was worthless because a woman had once held it. |
 | | By way of what some might see as divine justice, the same charge was later brought against the papacy - namely, that a young German woman named Joan had disguised herself as a man and tricked her way into office, only to be discovered when she gave birth in the street. |
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