Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181225:01:41:00
To say, "no, i don't care if you put my entire country under interdict," meaning everybody is excommunicated, "this makes no difference to me." essentially he stripped away the authority of the papacy and originally, at least, kept almost everything else, simply establishing a new church with a different head, and that authority was what he was most interested in, who was at the head of it. >> narrator: in the face of spiritual revolutionaries and power-hungry monarchs, the once-almighty pope sees the power of the office dwindle for the first time in nearly 800 years. by the milling of the 16t...