The Cadaver Synod: When a Pope Put His Dead Predecessor on Trial
— April 13, 2026In the dead of winter 897, inside Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran, one…
If you don’t recognize that name, don’t feel bad. Unfortunately for Godwin, his only claims to fame are being sentenced to death for murder, having the death sentence commuted and then electrocuting himself while attempting to fix a television set as he sat on his metal prison toilet.
In the dead of winter 897, inside Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran, one…
In late January 1959, ten experienced hikers from the Ural Polytechnical Institute in Sverdlovsk…
In the isolated woods of rural Bavaria, just 70 kilometers north of Munich, a…
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