Our pope this week is one unlike any other of the 265 successors of St. Peter. Smart and eloquent with a pen though he was, for most of his life he was best known as a smooth-talking womanizer and deadbeat dad whose only goal was elevating his own career, all the way up to being crowned as the emperor’s imperial poet.
And then he met the pope (who he hated), and everything changed.
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Support The Popecast: A History of the Papacy
The Pope Who Won a Contested Election (Pope St. Cornelius)
The Last Pope to Write about Witches (Pope Gregory XV)
The Second Dominican Pope (Blessed Benedict XI)
The OTHER Saint Paul (Pope St. Paul I)
The Other OTHER Saint John (Pope St. John I)
The Pope After Peter (St. Linus)
Pope Peter: An Interview w/ Author Joe Heschmeyer
How are popes elected? (Episode 50 Special)
The Pope Who Baptized Coffee (Clement VIII)
The Pope Who Canceled Rome (Adrian IV)
The Eleventh Pope (St. Anicetus)
The Pope Who Fought the Destruction of Statues (St. Gregory II)
The Pope Who Thought He Was Too Old (Pope Clement X)
The Pope Who Said Putting a Corpse on Trial is Bad (Pope John IX)
Two MORE Papal Difficulties (Interview on the Classical Theism Podcast)
PART THREE - The Pope Who Destroyed Communism (Pope St. John Paul II)
PART TWO – The Pope Who Destroyed Communism (Pope St. John Paul II)
PART ONE – The Pope Who Destroyed Communism (Pope St. John Paul II)
The Pope Who Didn't Back Down (St. Sixtus II)
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