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The papacy is the oldest continuously functioning institution in the world. To put that fact into perspective, consider that when George Washington was elected our nation's first president, the 250th pope was already reigning. More than one billion Roman Catholics throughout the world look to the pope each day for guidance and leadership. And at the death of John Paul II last year, more than four million people streamed into Rome to pay their respects...