a megalomaniac locking up people who didn't agree with him. so instead of being a unifying figure, he becomes a symbol of divisi division. >> half of the cardinals stand behind the maniacal pope urban vi in rome while the other half panic and flee back to avignon where they elect another pope, clement vii. the once universal church is now split. catholics are torn between two different popes running two functioning church bureaucracies from two different places. >> there was an election of a pope, and some people didn't like that election, so some people say, we're going to set up a church someplace else. and so this becomes a very big battle. >> so in solving one problem, getting the pope back to rome,