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all of this at history of the papacy podcast.com. With that, here's another piece of the mosaic of

the popes of Rome and Christian Church. And I will definitely be talking to you more soon.

Were there any popes, you've said that there is a continuation of theme between, and there's probably two different

eras in the, after the 1800s, were there any popes that broke from that theme or had some

really different ideas in their encyclicals that didn't jive, for lack of a better word,

with what popes before or after them said?

Maybe they were rattling some cages.

There were, you know, there were popes that were conservative, and then there's popes that are

considered more progressive. I would say, and I don't want to get too far, and maybe we'll

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