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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Answering Two Papal Objections (Interview on the Classical Theism podcast)
The Pope Who Canceled the Jesuits (Pope Clement XIV)
A Review of Netflix's "The Two Popes" (w/ Taylor Schroll of Forte Catholic)
The Pope Who Made Christmas Official (St. Julius I)
The (Bad) Pope Caught in Bed With Another Man's Wife (Pope John XII)
The Lesser-Known Defender of Rome (St. Gelasius I)
The Last Martyred Pope (St. Martin I)
The (Bad) Pope of the Protestant Reformation (Pope Leo X)
The Pope of the Counter-Reformation (Paul III)
The Pope and His Enemy, Who Were Martyred Together (Sts. Pontian & Hippolytus)
The Pope Who Condemned His Predecessor...Sort Of (St. Leo II)
The Pope Who Gave Us the Feast of Corpus Christi (Urban IV)
The Pope Who Saved Western Civilization (St. Pius V)
The Brothers Pope (Sisinnius & Constantine)
Another Very Bad Pope (Alexander VI)
The Popecast's Guide to Pope Benedict XVI's Letter on the Sex Abuse Scandal
EXTRA: Audio of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's Letter on Church Sex Abuse Scandal
The Abuse Scandal, Human Nature, & the Altar of the Heart (Interview w/ Dr. Chad Pecknold)
The Pope Who Didn't Do Anything Funny (Pope St. Hilarius)
Interview w/ Trent Horn (Apologist, Speaker, & Author)
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