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I'm Dave Davies.
We in the media regularly cover the decisions of powerful leaders in government
and business and how they affect our lives.
My guest today, veteran investigative reporter Philip Sheenan,
has spent much of the last 10 years examining the impact of seven powerful men who've exercised a different kind of authority.
They're the last seven popes of the Catholic Church,
whose intense power struggles
and doctrinal debates affect more than a billion Catholics in countless ways,
whether they can use birth control or get an abortion or divorce