A long Bengali-language article of Jerome D'Costa published in the Pratibeshi weekly of Dhaka, Bangladesh, between March 24 to May 12, 1974. This article mentions who a pope is, how he gets his spiritual and worldly authorities, how he is elected, how gradually popes got involved with reigning monarchs of different times, how the papacy became of bone of contention between rival groups, and, finally, it provides a complete list of popes since St. Peter the Apostle (42 A.D.) to Pope Paul VI (1963 A.D.).
