May 16, 2007
Pope Innocent XI
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Innocent XI was elected to the papacy because of his great saintliness and desire for reform. His election had been opposed by Louis XIV, with whom he had a long, bitter quarrel over Gallicanism, a Roman Catholic tradition of resistance to papal authority. As Pope, he passed strict ordinances against nepotism among the cardinals and lived very parsimoniously, exhorting the cardinals to do the same. Why did Innocent XI have little sympathy for the Catholic King of England, James II?
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