Pope
During the period between the fall of Rome and the declaration of Papal infallibility, the Roman Catholic Church was sometimes hard to distinguish from another traditionally Italian institution: the Mafia. At that time, all sorts of shrewd and sneaky schmucks infiltrated monasteries and seminaries, playing politics and pursuing power, and more often the key to eternal life and salvation was not prayer and good works but paying your weekly protection fee. This eventually resulted in a whole lot of popes that the church isn’t really proud of nowadays. Nevertheless, these gangsta popes deserve to be recognized for ...