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  • 35. The Prisoner Pope

    35. The Prisoner Pope
    Nov 2 2025
    Napoleon personally arrests Pope Pius the Seventh and drags him into five years of captivity. The emperor who crowned himself demonstrates that papal spiritual claims provide no protection against military force when imperial ambitions are at stake.

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    14 min
  • 34. The Counter Attack

    34. The Counter Attack
    Oct 26 2025
    The Catholic Church strikes back with the Council of Trent, militant Jesuit shock troops, and a brutal Inquisition. The Counter-Reformation saves papal Christianity from Protestant conquest but transforms the church into a centralized, authoritarian empire.

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    15 min
  • 33. The Fire Spreads

    33. The Fire Spreads
    Oct 19 2025
    Calvin transforms Geneva into a theocratic police state while Henry the Eighth breaks England away from Rome to solve his marriage problems. Protestant ideas explode across Europe like wildfire, consuming the religious unity that had defined medieval Christendom.

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    15 min
  • 32. Monks Revolt

    32. Monks Revolt
    Oct 12 2025
    Martin Luther's hammer blows against a church door in Wittenberg echo across Europe, shattering the Catholic monopoly on Christianity forever. The German monk's challenge to papal authority ignites the Protestant Reformation and splits Western Christianity permanently.

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    15 min
  • 31. The Borgias

    31. The Borgias
    Oct 5 2025
    Alexander the Sixth transforms the Vatican into a criminal enterprise run by his murderous children Cesare and Lucrezia. Orgies in the papal apartments, systematic poisoning of enemies, and the sale of church offices turn the throne of Saint Peter into the seat of a Renaissance crime family.

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    12 min
  • 30. The Warrior Pope

    30. The Warrior Pope
    Sep 28 2025
    Julius the Second trades his papal robes for armor and personally leads armies into battle. The pope who commissioned Michelangelo also commanded cannons, proving that Renaissance papal power meant wielding both sword and paintbrush in pursuit of territorial conquest and artistic glory.

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    16 min
  • 29. The Iron Pope

    29. The Iron Pope
    Sep 21 2025
    In 955, eighteen-year-old Octavian became Pope John XII, the grandson of the notorious Marozia and the ultimate product of the corrupt Pornocracy system. Contemporary sources describe a pope who turned the Lateran Palace into a brothel, ordained bishops for money, and allegedly toasted the devil while gambling. This episode examines the most scandalous pope in history and the dramatic confrontation with Holy Roman Emperor Otto I that would finally break the cycle of corruption plaguing the papacy.

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    15 min
  • 28. The Pornocracy

    28. The Pornocracy
    Sep 14 2025
    The Cadaver Synod of 897, where Pope Stephen VI put his predecessor's rotting corpse on trial, marked the beginning of the most corrupt period in papal history. For the next sixty years, the papal office became a prize fought over by Roman aristocratic families through murder, seduction, and betrayal. This episode explores the era when powerful women like Theodora and Marozia used sex and violence to control the successors of Saint Peter, transforming spiritual leadership into hereditary political property.

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    15 min