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Friday the 13th, Part VI...
Friday the 13th, Part VI...
Friday the 13th, Part VI...
Even the villainous Alexander VI (1492-1503), who won election by bribery, reputedly hired assassins and fathered the even more villainous Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, gets good marks as an administrator and patron of the arts. It was he who persuaded Michelangelo to undertake the grand rebuilding of St. Peter...
Kelly offers measured praise to all the last four Popes: John XXIII ("warm-hearted and unaffectedly simple"), Paul VI ("He was able to steer the church through a period of revolutionary change"), John Paul I ("a man of practical common sense") and John Paul II ("Few Popes have had such wide- ranging intellectual equipment as John Paul, and none has had such a far- reaching impact"). Such judgments are quite unexceptionable, but a secular- minded reader will find more of interest in some of the bad old days...