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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The Pope Who Had RBF (Servant of God, Pope Benedict XIII)
The Pope Who Was BFFs With Charlemagne (Pope Adrian I)
The Pope Who Outsmarted Napoleon (Servant of God, Pope Pius VII)
The Pope Who Made the Emperor Kneel in the Snow (St. Gregory VII)
The Pope Who Built the Wall (St. Leo IV)
The Pope They Called a Heretic (Honorius I) - Infallibility Series, Pt. 3
The Pope Who Was Once an Antipope (Vigilius) - Infallibility Series, Pt. 2
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The First Pope to Not Be a Saint (Liberius) - Infallibility Series, Pt. 1
The Pope who Condemned the Sexual Revolution (St. Paul VI)
The Pope Who Confirmed the Canon of Scripture (St. Damasus I)
The Pope Who Founded Western Civilization (St. Gregory the Great)
A Very Bad Pope (Benedict IX)
The Pope Who Battled Attila the Hun (St. Leo the Great)
The Pope with the Bird on His Head (St. Fabian)
The Pope Who Almost Contributed to the Bible (St. Clement I)
The "About Dang Time" Pope (Bl. Gregory X)
The First Pope (St. Peter)
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