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…
An innocent family trying to enjoy a nice meal was sickened by steak that was contaminated with the hallucinogenic drug LSD. Making matters worse, the wife was nine months pregnant, but was able to deliver a healthy baby boy after doctors induced labor after her arrival at the hospital. It was not clear how the meat, which had been purchased at a local Walmart, had become contaminated, but both state and federal agriculture and health officials were investigating.
In the dead of winter 897, inside Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran, one…
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