St. Birgitta, or Bridget of Sweden, in a letter to the pope, forwarding a message from Christ to make peace with a temporal ruler due to a grave scandal it was causing souls: “For, even if the Pope were expelled from the popedom, it were better that he should humble himself and make peace on whatever occasion it could be done, rather than so many souls perish in eternal damnation.” (Quoted in “Saint Catherine of Siena: A Study in the Religion, Literature, and History of the Fourteenth Century in Italy” by Edmund Garratt Gardner pub. 1907)