二十年前，我在梦里从天上听说了这件事；啊，是的，我本可以当教皇的！

I was told it from heaven in a dream, twenty years ago; ah, yes, I was to be pope!

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现在有117位红衣主教可以做教宗选举人，也就是说，有资格参与选举下届教皇的秘密会议。

There are now 117 cardinals who can be cardinal electors, that is, eligible to enter the secret conclave that will choose the next pope.

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但教皇的法令给予的还不止这些。

But the papal decree goes much further.

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Their autonomy was assisted by the continuing struggle between popes and Emperors, between church and state, again, a thoroughly unique Western experience.

他们的自治权是在君主和教皇的争斗中,国家与教堂的战争中促成的,这又是一次西方文明独特的经历

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Look what happens to Galileo, who was lucky enough not to have been burn on the stake by his friend, the pope.

看看伽利略的遭遇吧,他足够幸运,没有被他的教皇朋友绑在火刑柱上烧死

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Strong enough to interfere with the ambitions of emperors and kings, it never was able to impose its own domination, though some of the Popes surely tried.

也无法与君主帝王的,雄心壮志相抗衡,宗教是无法统治一个国家的,一些教皇的努力也以失败告终

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