Pope-In-Exile Locations

what about the Philippines? lots of Catholics here, and he can root out the corruption of the friar orders!

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*this is obviously not a good location for an exiled papacy for many reasons, but i'm throwing it in anyway!*
 
Avignon? It's got precedent...

Given how anti-clerical France was at the time and was to get even later (with the seperation of church and state a generation later). You think an eventual Republican govt. would let him stay there?

I say Malta. Extremely Catholic, offered several times as a refuge to Leo XIII if he left and the British, despite being Protestant and in favor of the fall of Rome and the loss of Temporal Power, would be able to play the Protector of the Pope to their millions of Catholic subjects/citizens.

Other options: Fulda/Cologne (offered by Bismark), Salzburg/Trent (offered by Austria-Hungary, somewhere in Spain and possibly Brasil, Argentina or Peru.
He had a lot of options actually. The Italian Govt. was actually AFRAID he was going to leave because it would have undercut their proclamations to the world that the pope had complete freedom in a united Italy.
 
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Austria initially, or in the short to intermediate term. The retreat from Rome is a dent to Catholicism for sure until a century later when the Pope sets up shop in Los Angeles and the beautiful tapestry of it all attracts the likes of Carole King, Kris Kristofferson and Dyan Cannon.
 
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