Very good stuff. A pity Urbanus VIII passed away so quickly, as with many of the Popes throughout this AAR the most competent always seem to last for little time at all. I certainly think him highly competent at least in so dealing with Austria and then sorting out the bickering Italian nations. Shocking that Knights would prove such perfidious pillocks, they need be dealt with harshly. As your update ended it seems as if concerns in the west will become the focus for the Papacy, interesting.