If you want to be the Bishop of Rome and the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church, you have to relinquish the normal lifestyle. (You can read more about the popes on the popes below)
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Below are some of the Popes who still had sexual cravings after receiving holy orders, and some even went ahead to fulfill them.
1.Pope Julius II (1503–1513) had three illegitimate daughters, one of whom was Felice della Rovere (born in 1483, twenty years before his election as pope, but twelve years after his enthronement as Bishop of Lausanne). The schismatic Conciliabulum of Pisa, which sought to depose him in 1511, also accused him of being a “sodomite”.
2. Pope Paul III (1534–1549) who, according to some sources, held off ordination in order to continue his promiscuous lifestyle, fathering four illegitimate children (three sons and one daughter) by his mistress Silvia Ruffini after his appointment as Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Cosimo and Damiano. There is no evidence of sexual activity during his papacy. He made his illegitimate son Pier Luigi Farnese the first Duke of Parma.
3. Pope Gregory XIII (1572–1585) received the ecclesiastical tonsure in Bologna in June 1539, but subsequently had an affair with Maddalena Fulchini which resulted in the birth of a son, Giacomo Boncompagni, in 1548. Giacomo remained illegitimate, but his father later appointed him Gonfalonier of the Church, governor of the Castel Sant’Angelo, as well as governor of Fermo.
4. Pope Leo XII (1823–1829), as a young prelate was suspected of having had a liaison with the wife of a soldier of Swiss Guard and as nuncio in Germany, allegedly fathered three illegitimate children.
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