After reeding varius posts of people trying to kill the pope i decided to give it a go. As I played the holy roman empire i began to think up away to finaly put an end to the pope and finally I had a stroke of genius. I realised that for a new pope to be elected the college of cardinals must vote. So knowing this i systematically wiped out all the cardinals whilst having an army waiting on the rome border. After destroying the cardinals i imedietly seiged rome taking it in 2 turns. The pope was killed, and with no college of cardinals he could not be relected. Testing whether he still might come back i played on for 20 turns, still no pope. Finally he was dead. The pope KILLED!