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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Clement VII |
 | | In particular, the pope seems to have had a horror of the idea of convoking a general council, foreseeing, no doubt, grave difficulties with France in any such attempt. |
 | | Things were not improved when Henry, through his envoy Bonner, who found Clement visiting the French king at Marseilles, lodged his appeal to a future general council on the divorce question. |
 | | In the more ecclesiastical aspects of his pontificate Clement was free from reproach. |
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