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…
Let’s revisit the subject of germs in the office. The telephone is quite likely to be the dirtiest object in the entire office. Think about it, it’s handled quite a lot, leaving germs that you have picked up from hours of touching god-knows-what, and you talk into the thing with your germ hole, otherwise known as your mouth. The mouth, unfortunately, is the part of the body that harbors more bacteria than any other. Yes, even more than “down there.”
In the dead of winter 897, inside Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran, one…
Just after 2 a.m. on Sunday, July 30, 1916, New Yorkers were jolted from…
In the summer of 1587, 115 English men, women, and children stepped ashore on…
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