[quote=@TomeBinder]
Yo, can I get me some confirmation on the Pope? My King is gonna wanna meet him, you know, to try and achieve God's favour. It'd make Naples harder to invade, if it was internationally known that the Catholic church openly favoured the backwards kingdom.

What's he like? I mentioned in my bio that the King got on very well with the local church, which of course would've been Catholic. So i'd like to think it'd put me on good standing. 

And for that matter, how is religion in this RP? Does it still play a big factor in peoples' lives? 

Thanks
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In this time period religion was more used as a nationalistic tool then really used to live one's life. The pope barely had any power anymore, only having control over the Papal states which would soon be integrated in the Kingdom of Italy. 

The religion was more used to create a feeling of "us versus them" but it national interests were more important. For example the Crimean war of 1853 was a war where protestant Britain and catholic France joined forces with the sunni Ottomans to fight the orthodox Russians. Although in the eyes of the (catholic) people, a blessing by the pope would give you a huge popularity boost. 

But the pope had his own agenda so you would really need to convince him. At the moment the pope still controls a decent amount of the Italian peninsula if we are going by the historical time line, but he will lose all his holdings a year from now once Sardinia-Piedmont comes unifing Italy.