Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181225:01:04:00
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 ...