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…
Every year in the United States there are somewhere in the area of 20,000 acts of violence occur in the workplace. Imagine an employee calling in sick one day and saying something like, “I won’t be in today because I’m afraid Bill in accounting is going to blow his top any day and start beating people up.” We think this guy is just pissed off because of the wardrobe choices he made that day.
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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