MAP#36 – Popes Behaving Badly

The Pope, the Bishop of Rome, successor of Saint Peter and leader of the Catholic Church. Pious men aspire to the chair and humbly accept the position. At least that’s what we’d like to believe. But not all popes were righteous men, some weren’t even Christian! In this episode of the Medieval Archives Podcast we are going to look at some of the worst Popes of the Middle Ages.

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In this episode we discuss:

• A Pope who put his dead predecessor on trial
• The Pope who ran a male brothel
• The Pope who gave us the Pornocracy
• A ruler who deposed three Popes and installed his own
• A Pope so despicable they gave him a TV show
• And more…

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