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Slaughtered. horrified by the carnage, pope clement vii flees the vatican and seeks safety. >> he gets away by sneaking out of the city. >> narrator: the pope hides out in a castle outside of rome for five week, but eventually the german army surrounds his refuge. clement vii is forced to surrender to king charles v. >> there was certainly no intention to kill the pope. why would you do that to the holy father? but what the emperor wanted was to make the pope helpless, and he did so. and now the emperor had him at his mercy.

Catholicism is the law of the land. >> there is a foment of devotion, deep, deep piety in europe. everyone went to church out of conviction. >> narrator: almost the entire population of europe devoutly follows rome's catholic doctrine, and the pope is at the head of it all. >> in the 16th century, there h had been a series of worldly popes that loved power. >> all earthly institutions are flawed, and the renaissance popes got caught up with power. >> it is not surprising that people who loved power took it. >> narrator: but as papal power swells, so does a culture of greed and corruption. the ...

Clement vii flees the vatican and seeks safety. he gets away by sneaking out of the city. the pope hide out in a castle outside of rome for five weeks. but eventually the german army surrounds his refuge. clement vii is forced to surrender to king charles v. >> there was no intention to kill the pope. why would you do that to the holy father? but what the emperor wanted was to make the pope helpless. aened he he did so. and now the emperor had him at