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392 - History's Worst Popes

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The Year of Three Popes

This is, I think the only time of history that's ever happened. He sold the role of Pope. And in just over 100 days, there'd been three different popes. So there was Sylvester, then Benedict now Gregory VI. Oh, it feels like the last 20 years, you know, three or four popes. Mm. It's wild that it was a thing they could sell.

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