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The Priests of Plague

Behind the Bastards

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The Pope's Response to the Plage

Clement the sixth was pope in 1349. His initial response to the death of tens of thousands of Jews during the plague Was arguably based in sound or science than the first responses of the president of the United States in 2020 To our own play Like Clemens reasoning is more solid what Trump was dropping. We were like hold on. Let's look around Everybody's getting it. Okay, maybe that's maybe that's not fair cities without any Jewish people are getting it tooLike you can't you clearly this can't be their fault. Hey look I want hey, I want to blame him as much as you guys do trust me. I'm the pope I want toIt would be great

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