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But churches that ordain female clergy might have their own "woman problem" in accepting a scaled-back papacy that came with theological strings attached.
He opposed Piedmontese patricians and intellectuals of the Moderates party, seeking reform through a privilege-conscious confederation of Italian princes blessed by the papacy — with Piedmont providing the military muscle.
But in turn the pope had to kneel in allegiance, and this exchange of spiritual blessing for military protection laid the seeds of future conflict between the papacy and secular rulers, compounded in 962 when Otto I was crowned Emperor of the newly formed Holy Roman Empire.
Le Monde of Paris marked Friday's 20 th anniversary of John Paul II's election to the papacy by commissioning an opinion poll that shows 53 percent of French people think he should resign.
After thirty years, the papacy returned.