First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

I'm not a catholic but I decided to watch the new Conclave movie as well as a Tasting History by Max Miller to learn a little bit about it. Very interesting but I'd love a historical movie on some of the past conclaves when the pope managed a standing army.

Edit: The Max Miller video was about the baby back ribs cooked in proto-bbq sauce made from grapes that was eaten by a conclave.

The movie “two popes” is pretty good, which some strong acting performance. (Not really historical since that was about a decade ago)

> when the pope managed a standing army.

In the past wasn't the church basically a political entity, there was even a period when some kingdoms didn't recognize the Vatican pope... (I suppose it's still is very much a political organization)

Also a very old bank

A bunch of Buddhist monasteries were also banks, back in the day.

Medieval Catholic monasteries were basically corporations where the board lived together and spent tons of time praying and celebrating festivals. Prayers were like NFTs and they traded them to nobles in exchange for traditionally-productive capital, which the corporation would then manage to provide them goods and monetary revenue.

Here I was tempted to write "the past was weird" but then we have actual NFTs and those are amazingly silly, so, how weird was it really?

AIUI, Vatican City is still its own political entity. (I do not claim to understand how that interacts with the Catholic Church in general.)

The Church isn't a political entity per se since the Church didn't hold the power over the Papal States or Vatican City. It is the Pope who held both church and secular power.