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Here’s a brief thread on a few of our bad Popes. In each case imagine what the headlines would read if Pope Francis did/said those things. God is always in control.
Pretty obvious start is Pope Alexander VI, who purchased the papacy with cash, to further his families political objectives. He kept a small haram of women around the Vatican and used his power to get his bastard children comfy positions in various governments.
Pope Honorius I, elected in 625, was famously condemned by the 3rd Council of Constantinople for HERESY. Not some tabloid story of heresy, the Church actually officially condemns him as a monotheletist. The reason this doesn’t contradict infallibility is an interesting discussion
Who could forget, Stephen VI (elected May 896) who exhumed the body of the previous Pope (Formosus) and did a “cadaver trial”. Putting the rotting corpse on the stand, stripping him of papal vestments and tossing the body in the Tiber, for largely political reasons.
Pope Leo X, elected March 1513, allegedly a secret atheist, allegedly referred to Cahtolicism as a convenient superstition WHILE READING THE GOSPEL AT MASS. He allegedly covered up child sex abuse, murder, and instituted the infamous sale of indulgences for cash.
Pope John XII, elected December 955. His papacy is only remembered for the parties he brought to Rome. The Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran was described as a “brothel” during his reign. He was killed by a man who found him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX, elected Pope in 1032, after his father purchased the office for him. He later sold the Papacy, and regained it. Holding the office on three separate occasions. He was excommunicated by his successor, Pope Damasus II in 1049, for simony.
@ireadanarticle1 this is what I meant the other day, when I said Pope Francis doesn’t even begin to make the list of bad Popes.
*it should be noted he wasn’t willfully going against established doctrine, he died before it was declared dogma
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