Pope?

[=Omni=]

Well, I'm not a good historian, but did the pope play as significant role in XVII century as he did in medieval times? This leads me to a question whether it's good to sacrify the faction slot for Papal states, while you could put somoen else there.

And if the pope stayed in game, then I think we should limit it , so that he wouldn't call the crusades anymore, nor send inquistition (I think that the religious wars were rather inspired by the catholic countries rather than by the Holy See)

[cegorach]

Calling for a crusade is still useful. Inquisition will be removed.

[DukeofSerbia]

Rome in XVI century reached over 100 000 inhabitants and had 54 churches, 60 palaces, large number of villas, new streets and waterworks (system).

Pope Pius VI (1566-1572) was fanatical, ascetic and aggressive person. He encouraged Duke of Alba to eradicate Protestants in Netherlands and demanded from Don Juan of Austria to destroy Ottoman fleet at Lepanto.