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Originally Posted by rubecube
Yeah, I don't get exactly where peter12 is going with this. The various popes acted as facilitators and co-conspirators with various groups trying to gain power in Italy alone, and even amassed their own forces when they could. I'd argue that their motivations were largely secular and that they used Catholicism in order to recruit people to their cause, but they certainly were a political entity.
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I am going to pull a CP, and say "source?"
I didn't go back to read what I said, but my intent was to say they were never successful as a political entity.
Basically what you said. They tried to mediate conflict, and attempted to create a Catholic political empire (HRE), but were never successful.
They never formed the government of England.