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35. The Prisoner Pope
Napoleon personally arrests Pope Pius the Seventh and drags him into five years of captivity. The emperor who crowned himself demonstrates that papal spiritual claims provide no protection against mi…
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34. The Counter Attack
The Catholic Church strikes back with the Council of Trent, militant Jesuit shock troops, and a brutal Inquisition. The Counter-Reformation saves papal Christianity from Protestant conquest but trans…
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33. The Fire Spreads
Calvin transforms Geneva into a theocratic police state while Henry the Eighth breaks England away from Rome to solve his marriage problems. Protestant ideas explode across Europe like wildfire, cons…
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32. Monks Revolt
Martin Luther's hammer blows against a church door in Wittenberg echo across Europe, shattering the Catholic monopoly on Christianity forever. The German monk's challenge to papal authority ignites t…
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31. The Borgias
Alexander the Sixth transforms the Vatican into a criminal enterprise run by his murderous children Cesare and Lucrezia. Orgies in the papal apartments, systematic poisoning of enemies, and the sale …
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30. The Warrior Pope
Julius the Second trades his papal robes for armor and personally leads armies into battle. The pope who commissioned Michelangelo also commanded cannons, proving that Renaissance papal power meant w…
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29. The Iron Pope
In 955, eighteen-year-old Octavian became Pope John XII, the grandson of the notorious Marozia and the ultimate product of the corrupt Pornocracy system. Contemporary sources describe a pope who turn…
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28. The Pornocracy
The Cadaver Synod of 897, where Pope Stephen VI put his predecessor's rotting corpse on trial, marked the beginning of the most corrupt period in papal history. For the next sixty years, the papal of…
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God’s Influencer Becomes a Saint, LGBTQ Pilgrims Enter Vatican, and Chicago Chefs Cook for the Pope
Carlo Acutis, the 15-year-old computer prodigy known as “God’s influencer,” has been canonized in Rome as the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint. Also, hundreds of LGBTQ Catholics joined a hist…
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27. The Forged Donation
In 778, Pope Adrian I made a remarkable historical claim in a letter to Charlemagne, referencing how Emperor Constantine had granted the western Roman Empire to the papacy centuries earlier. What Adr…
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