As the French, me and the fat old Pope (or several of 'em) had a funny little chain of events:
Turn x: I take Genoa.
Turn x+1: Crusade, the Pope demands that my king personally lead an attack on constantinople.
Turn x+2: After making a sufficient amount of troops, I decide this will be the turn I join the crusade. However, the Pope excommunicates me. Then, guess what, the same turn, the Pope dies! Vote in new Pope! New pope reconciles me. Then, a few seconds later, excommunicates me again!
How???
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