re: #166 Nyet

Charges of murder seem to be based on rumors. Even if true, we wouldn’t know. Think about how even today rumors quickly overwhelm sober facts when it comes to politics. Now magnify that at least tenfold.

Maybe so, but murder appeared to be a “solution” when eliminating your enemies back then, whether an individual act or in war, as is done today. And would a pope, or those surrounding him, sully his position by writing it down? Not to mention being above any secular law existent at the time—that was for the peons, not for a papal family that lived like royalty and still does.