Today's installment concludes Great Pope/Anti-Pope Schism Begins,our selection from History of Latin Christianity by Henry Hart Milman published in
Pope Urban’s Bad Behavior
Friends and foes agree in attributing the schism, at least the immediate schism, to the imprudent zeal, the imperiousness, the ungovernable temper of
Conclave Elects Urban VI
But it was too late; the mob was thundering at the gates, menacing death to the cardinals, if they had not immediately a Roman pontiff.Continuing
Great Pope/Anti-Pope Schism Begins
This series has four easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: The Cardinals Meet.IntroductionIn 1308 Pope Clement V, a Frenchman,