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Martin Luther burns a papal bull
Also: A massive papal memorabilia exhibit coming to the Mall of America and some Advent wisdom from Pope St. John Paul the Great
 • Matthew Sewell
A pope's corpse is put on trial
Also, the 18-month papacy of Pius VIII came to an end, and Pope Benedict XVI gives some wisdom to a batch of new cardinals
 • Matthew Sewell
Italian Normans overpower the pope's armies
Today in Papal History marks a couple of papal deaths, a new episode of the pod on an 11th Century losing battle for St. Leo IX, and some prophetic…
 • Matthew Sewell
Charlemagne's Pope
A pope who bears a familiar name, who was allied with one of the greatest kings of Western Civilization, and who even has a connection with the current…
 • Matthew Sewell
Pope St. John Paul II's Letter to Poland
The day after he was officially inaugurated as pope, St. John Paul the Great wrote a letter to his fellow countrymen.
 • Matthew Sewell
The Pope Who Predicted the Future
Pope St. Paul VI gets a bad rap by some, but he without a doubt was prophetic in one particular area...
 • Matthew Sewell
Pope Benedict XV finishes "A Truly Arduous Task"
Today in Papal History marks the culmination of over a decade of tireless work to collect and condense centuries of Church law into a single…
 • Matthew Sewell
Today in Papal History
Today in Papal History
2,000 years of history. 266 popes. Find out what the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church were doing on any given day down through the centuries.
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