Napoleon and the Catholic Church

Napoleon and the Catholic Church remained on difficult terms throughout the former's rule. Although Napoleon moderated the radical secularism of the French Revolution, he opposed the church as a political power at various turns and had two successive popes held prisoner, resulting in his excommunication by Pope Pius VII.

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