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 Slave Who Became Pope (St. Callistus I)
The Pope Who Saved Western Civilization (St. Pius V REDUX)
The Other Pope Named John Paul (Venerable John Paul I)
The Pope Who Hired a Warrior Cardinal (Innocent VI)
A Habsburg Shares the Story of Pope St. Gregory the Great
The Pope Who Really REALLY Didn't Want the Job (Blessed Victor III)
The Greatest Pope You've Never Heard Of (Sixtus V)
The Pope Whose Family Was the Literal Worst (Benedict VIII)
The Pope Who Was Ridiculously Good Looking (Conon)
The Pope Who Told Us When to Celebrate Easter (St. Victor I)
The Pope Who Wasn't Even a Priest Yet (Nicholas III)
The First Assassinated Pope (John VIII)
The Last Pope...Alphabetically (St. Zosimus)
The Pope Who Died of the Plague (Pope Pelagius II)
Quizzical Papist Crossover w/ Fr. Brad and Grace
Scandals, Canon Law, and Freemasonry with The Pillar's JD Flynn and Ed Condon
Pope Benedict XVI (An Interview with Fr. Harrison from Clerically Speaking)
The Immaculate Conception and the Popes
The Pope Who Called a Crusade (Pope Clement III)
The Pope Who Baptized the Pantheon (Pope St. Boniface IV)
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