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Due to chronicler Giovanni Villani, Pope Clement V has wrongly been labeled a puppet of the French king, Philip IV.

Against commonly accepted truths, Pope Clement V was a pro-English pope with deep ties to the King of England, Edward I (Longshanks).

The destruction of the Knights Templar came as a result of greed on the part of the French king, Philip IV, and not at the hands of the Catholic Church and it's pope.

The Templars were famous long before Dan Brown's novel "The Da Vinci Code" cast them as goddess-worshipping protectors of the secret of the Grail. But who were they?

The arrest and trial of the Templars destroyed the first military religious order. But they lived on in legends of divine retribution.

For nearly six centuries, the Catholic Church operated a series of inquisitions for the purpose of wiping out heresy and witchcraft.

One purpose of the General Councils was to define terms such as 'person' or 'divinity' so that doctrine would be more clear.