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Troubling. you're abdicating the seat of where the church is supposed to lie. if you leave the bones of peter behind and you're not moving them, you're moving to this other place, what you're saying is that maybe this isn't as important to the church as we had thought it was previously. now it becomes a really dangerous situation for holding together not just the papacy, but holding together beliefs and tenets of the church. >> leaving rome cost religious authority throughout europe. but once the church becomes established in france, pope clement v finds that despite being hundreds of miles fr...

The name clement v becomes the pope. philip asks them to come to france to crown him pope. >> the popes, of course, had been appointed in rome from the time of st. peter. >> king phillip of france has a very powerful hold on clement v. he's a weak man and he's intimidated by phillip. >> he did whatever was asked. clement v promised philip a flatout portion of the church tithe. it went straight into the royal coffers. he signed off on the expulsion of jews as a danger to the church, in knowledge that the wealth was going to go to phillip. that's very blatant. >> by 1309 king philip has turned p...

Linked to his exposure at ground zero. new york mayor bill de blasio tweeted his photo saying in our city's darkest hour, fdny firefighter thomas phelan's heroism saved hundreds of lives. we'll never forget his service and his sacrifice. he was just 45 years old. that does it for me. i'm ana cabrera in new york. be sure to tune in at 9:00 for "the kennedys." and at 10:00 for "the pope." here's a sneak peek of that. >> he's notorious. he just did whatever he was asked. clement v actually promised philip a flat-out portion of the church tithe. he also signed off on the expulsion of jews as a d...

Was goi wealth was going to go to philip. that's very blatant. >> by 1309, king philip has turned pope clement v into a pawn of the french crown. and in an attempt to solidify his power over the church, the french king lays the groundwork for what will be the papacy's most notorious resolution by undermining its very foundation. >> peter is buried on the vatican hill and st. peter's basilica is built over his tomb. popes are seen as inheriting that charisma and that role, as standing in for the apostle. his tomb, his foundation charter for the papacy. >> but king philip demands that pope cleme...

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