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History of the Papacy Podcast
by History of the Papacy
This show will detail the biographies and interesting facts of the Papacy of Rome. It will start in the beginning, but will not go straight through. There will be many side tracks and detours along the way. We will investigate the backstreets of the Papacy where the tour normally doesn't go. Support this show
Episodes
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Coming Soon - Magnificent Humanity
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Papal Vault – Earliest Popes: Constantine Changes the Game
Pope Miltiades stood at the turning point when Christianity moved from persecuted religion to legal and politically important force in the Roman Empire. This episode covers Constantine, the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, the Edict of Milan, the Donatist controversy, and the first major steps…
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Profoundly Modern?
What happened to the Guelphs and Ghibellines after Dante’s generation? The names survived for centuries, but their original meaning slowly gave way to family rivalries, oligarchic struggles, territorial states, foreign armies, and new ways of thinking about political power. In this capstone to…
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Coming Soon - When Political Labels Become Memes
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Profoundly Medieval
Pope Boniface VIII, King Philip IV of France, and Dante Alighieri all believed in Christendom, but they had radically different ideas about how spiritual and temporal power should fit together. From Unam Sanctam and the attack on Boniface at Anagni to Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio, and Monarchia,...
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Coming Soon - Power in Action
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Papal Vault – Earliest Popes: Diocletian’s Persecution
The Great Peace of the Church gave Christianity room to grow, but that calm shattered under Diocletian’s brutal persecution. This episode follows Popes Caius, Marcellinus, Marcellus, and Eusebius through martyr stories, lapsed Christians, Donatist tensions, and the violence that shook the Roman...
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Faith and Artificial Intelligence: The Question of Our Time
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing work, education, medicine, creativity, and even the way podcasts like this one are produced. Steve talks with technology entrepreneur Erik Fogg about where AI may be heading, why massive increases in productivity could also bring widespread…
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Guido Guerra: A Hero in Dante’s Hell
Guido Guerra was one of the most respected Guelph leaders of medieval Florence: a soldier, statesman, and civic hero whom Dante himself clearly admired. So why does Dante place him deep in the Inferno among those punished for violence against nature? In this episode, we move from Guido the...
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Coming Soon - Dante is In Hell
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Pope or Emperor? The Guelphs and Ghibellines
For generations, the Guelphs and Ghibellines divided the cities and families of medieval Italy, but behind the strange names was a much older struggle over the power of pope and emperor. From Frederick Barbarossa and the Lombard League to Frederick II and the violent factions of Florence, we…
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Coming Soon - Medieval Gang Warfare
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Papal Vault - Earliest Popes Quiet Years, Growing Tensions
From Lucius to Eutychian, the papacy entered a quieter but still important period marked by disputes over baptism, renewed persecution, plague, and early Trinitarian debates. This episode shows how the church survived instability in the Roman Empire while internal arguments over authority and...
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The Shroud of Turin: Pulling the Threads
The Shroud of Turin has been called the burial cloth of Jesus, but how far back can its documented history actually be traced? This episode follows the evidence from medieval France through Constantinople and into Edessa, the true historical black hole in the Shroud’s proposed chain of custody....
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Coming Soon - New Milestones Unlocked!
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Papal Vault – The Earliest Popes: Schism After the Storm
After the Decian persecution, the church faced a crisis over what to do with Christians who had sacrificed to the Roman gods under pressure. This episode explores Cornelius, Novatian, Cyprian of Carthage, and the bitter disputes over repentance, authority, and who had the right to speak for the...
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Coming Soon - Read It Yourself
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Christianity Before Creeds and Canons
In this episode we ask a simple but far reaching question, before the canon and creeds were fully settled, what were Christians actually doing in worship and prayer? They explore the Didache, Justin Martyr, oral tradition, and the catacombs to show that early Christian life was structured,...
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Papal Vault – Rome Falls Apart, Church Holds Together
The Roman Empire was cracking under the Crisis of the Third Century, but the Christian movement was growing stronger, more organized, and harder to ignore. This episode follows Popes Anterus and Fabian, the rise of church administration, missionary expansion into Gaul, and the devastating Decian...
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Coming Soon - A Year's Salary for the Gospel
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England’s Anonymous Against Rome
In this episode, Steve Guerra and Patrick Young return from the English exile communities abroad to look at what happened to those who remained in England after 1066. They explore the persecution of native clergy, the forced replacement of the Anglo-Saxon church order, and the remarkable protest…
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Coming Soon - Wiped off the Map
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Papal Vault – Earliest Popes: Before the Chair was a Throne
The earliest bishops of Rome stepped into a Christian movement that was still taking shape, full of local traditions, theological disputes, and competing claims of authority. This episode follows figures like Linus, Clement, Anacletus, Victor, Zephyrinus, Callistus, and Hippolytus as the Roman...
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Zion on Grand Island: America’s Almost Jewish Homeland
In this episode, we follow a strange line from Lydia Maria Child’s The American Frugal Housewife into one of the oddest and most fascinating episodes in early American religious history. Mordechai Manuel Noah, one of the most prominent Jewish Americans of the early 19th century, imagined Grand...
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Coming Soon - A Sad Great American Road Trip
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The Lost English Colony of the Dark Ages
After the Norman Conquest, many Anglo-Saxon nobles, clergy, and warriors refused to submit and instead chose exile, fleeing not just to Scotland and Scandinavia, but all the way to Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire. The episode explores the remarkable tradition of around 10,000 English...
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Coming Soon - Still English
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The Papal Vault: After Life
This is the eighth and probably final installment of Garry and Steve’s Guide to the Apocalypse. The belief in the life a person would live after death changed drastically during the Second Temple Jewish period. We will discuss the beliefs that developed around the afterlife and how they changed....
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The Normans Remade the Christian World
In this episode, Steve Guerra and Patrick Young explored how the Norman Conquest reshaped far more than the English throne, remaking the Church, culture, and power structures of Anglo-Saxon England. They discussed papal backing for William’s invasion, the drive for ecclesiastical uniformity, the...
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Coming Soon - Burning it Down
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The Papal Vault: Apocalypse by Numbers
This is the seventh installment of Garry and Steve’s Guide to the Apocalypse. Today, we will get into the detail of the Book of Revelation, also known as the Apocalypse of St. John. This books is full of symbolism, numerology and much more! You can learn more about the History of Papacy and...
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1066 Was Not Just a Battle: It Was a Church Revolution
In this first collaboration with Patrick Young of the Forgotten Christianity Substack, we looked at the Norman invasion of Anglo-Saxon England through a religious lens, asking how 1066 transformed not just a kingdom, but the English Church itself. Steve Guerra and Patrick Young explored papal...
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Coming Soon - A Minor Schism
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The Papal Vault: What a Revalation!
This is the sixth installment of Garry and Steve’s Guide to the Apocalypse. In this episode Garry and I give an overview of the Apocalypse of St. John, better known as the book of Revelations. It is an exciting and confusing book, to say the least. You can learn more about the History of Papacy…
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Death, Fear, and Faith: Surviving the Plague of Cyprian
The Plague of Cyprian tore through the Roman Empire, leaving death, fear, and uncertainty in its wake. In this episode, we revisit this third century pandemic with new research, a post COVID perspective, and the powerful words of Cyprian as he guided Christians through crisis. This is not just a...
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Coming Soon - The Upside of Pandemics
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The Papal Vault: Satan and the Origin of Evil
This is the fifth installment of Garry and Steve’s Guide to the Apocalypse. In this episode Garry and I discuss the narrative arch of the character Satan. It is curious why his stock went down over the course of Second Temple Judaism. Join us as we try to see why this reassessment took place. You...
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Our Country, Their Peril
In this episode, we looked at Josiah Strong’s Our Country and the wider Protestant fears that shaped late nineteenth century America, especially anxiety over Catholic immigrants, cities, and the future of the nation. We then connected those ideas to the racialized hatred faced by Italian...
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Coming Soon - When In Rome
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The Papal Vault – When Francis Met Kyrill
In this episode we start to peel back the layers of history behind of the meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch of Kirill of Moscow in February of 2016. Many claims of superlatives have been made about this meeting. Was it the first meeting of its kind? We will see, the Roman Catholic and Russian...
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Full Documentary: The Catholic History of the United States from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War
How did the Catholic Church take root in the early United States? In this full documentary episode of The History of the Papacy, I brought together the complete story of the Catholic Church in America from the Revolutionary era to the Civil War. This episode followed the Church from its fragile...
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Coming Soon - The Whole Story
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The Papal Vault – The Original Crisis in Ukraine
Join us today as we discuss the origins of the current political and religious situation in the country of Ukraine with two actual political scientists, Pete Sleeman and Broc Rademan of the Lands of Leviathan podcast. This episode is a continuation of our series looking at the interaction where...
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William F. Buckley Jr., Catholicism, and Civility in a Polarized Age
In this episode of History of the Papacy, Steve Guerra welcomes Josh Cohen, host of Eyewitness History and author of William F. Buckley Jr.'s Guide to Friendship in a Polarized Era. The conversation explores Buckley’s Catholic faith, his attachment to tradition, his response to the changes...
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Coming Soon - More Catholic Than the Pope
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A Priest, a Van, and a Team: Lessons from Buffalo’s East Side
Steve welcomes Paul McCarthy, author of Don’t Lose Your Dignity, to share the story of Monsignor Leo McCarthy’s decades of coaching and quiet ministry in Buffalo. From a Depression era upbringing to building teams in the toughest neighborhoods, Father Leo used sports to teach discipline, respect,...
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Coming Soon - 1000 Pound Club Priest
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Slavery, Nativism, and Catholic America’s Civil War Knot
A warning up front: this episode is not what you expect. We take one complicated figure as our entry point and follow the threads into law, power, immigration, and religious conflict in the decades before the Civil War. The closer we look, the messier the usual story gets and by the end, the…
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Coming Soon - Updates and New Episodes
Coming this week on the History of the Papacy! You can learn more about the History of Papacy and subscribe at all these great places: email: [email protected] https://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacy Connect on Social Media: https://www.youtube.com/@atozhistory...
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Fire on the Frontier: The Burned Over District and America’s Religious
In the early nineteenth century, a stretch of upstate New York became one of the most spiritually charged regions in American history. Known as the Burned Over District, this frontier landscape was shaped by relentless revivals, bold preachers, and a growing belief that individuals could choose...
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This show will detail the biographies and interesting facts of the Papacy of Rome. It will start in the beginning, but will not go straight through. There will be many side tracks and detours along the way. We will investigate the backstreets of the Papacy where the tour normally doesn't go. Support this show
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