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His power struggle with the papacy divided the country into two highly volatile camps — Guelfs supporting the pope and Ghibellines supporting the emperor.
The style of John Paul II's papacy has occasioned as much comment as its substance.
But churches that ordain female clergy might have their own "woman problem" in accepting a scaled-back papacy that came with theological strings attached.
The papacy in Rome had lost prestige with the dissolution of the Jesuits and the crippling loss of revenue from the Hapsburg Church reforms.
With the papacy in comfortable exile in Avignon since 1309, the brutal rule of the Orsini and Colonna families reduced Rome to a half-urban, half-rural backwater village.