It is not good for a pope to live 20 years. It is an anomaly and bears no good fruit; he becomes a god, and has no one to contradict him, does not know facts, and does cruel things without meaning it.
Saint John Henry Newman commenting on his views on the 31-year papcy of Pius IX.
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