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…
Way back in the year 1976, a company CEO was paid about 36 times the amount an average employee was paid. Today, that number has skyrocketed to between 273 and 380, depending on which source you want to believe. Even if you stick with the lower number, 273 times what an average worker makes is still a pretty comfortable salary, to say the least! Perhaps we should start outsourcing CEOs instead of workers!
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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