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Beneath the Headlines
Episode 23 - Politics, Power, and the Church: Pope Gregory VII and the Cluniac Movement
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A. In today’s podcast, we will be exploring the challenges the church has with power and looking at some of its internal efforts at reform – most notably, the work of Pope Gregory VII and the Cluniac movement.