“The office of Pope... [is] a thorny one, beset on all sides with sharp pricks.” (John of Salisbury said: “The office of Pope, he assured me, was a thorny one, beset on all sides with sharp pricks. He wished indeed that he had never left England, his native land, or at least had lived his life quietly in the cloister of Sts. Rufus rather than have entered on such difficult paths, but he dared not refuse, since it was the Lord’s bidding” Pope Adrian IV, Indirect Quote from John of Salisbury  (Polycraticus, Bk. IV, xxviii).)