the fight was for power and for choosing bishops. the kings wanted to chose them because they thought that they had more power, but the popes thought since they were leaders of the church they should chose.
Yes, there have been several popes that were related - one father and son and several popes had nephews who were elected as pope.
No, there have been no Irish popes and only one pope from England.
There is onle one Pope at any one time.
Very few popes have had sexual relationships with mistresses and Benedict is not one of them.
If anything, Popes get their wishes fulfilled by actually becoming elected and accepting election in papacy. One can imagine this would be a biggest wish for any of our popes through history.
Popes do not vote. It is the cardinals who elect a pope. Popes are usually dead at the time of an election or retired. In either case they would not be eligible to vote. The cardinals simply vote. After each ballot is cast, the top contenders are then subject to additional ballots until one of them emerges with 2/3 of the vote. If that cardinal accepts the position of pope, he is then declared the new pope.
Only one in any given time. A pope is only replaced when he dies.
benedictxvi@vatican.vathats is his public one
Please pick one of the 266 popes.
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There is only one pope at a time but over history there have been a total of 266 popes from Saint Peter to Pope Francis.