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Subscribe now wherever you get your podcast. Welcome to the History of the Papacy podcast, a podcast about the history of the

of the popes of Rome and Christian Church.

Prepare yourself to step behind the ropes and leave the official tour of the story of the

popes and Christianity. I'm your host, Steve Guerra, and I thank you for joining me on this

journey.

With a little bit of an announcement and something a little different this week.

There's going to be no regular episode this week in the Pius the 9th and the papacy

of the 19th century series.

It has been a heck of a couple of weeks.

I'm preparing for a new project that will be coming out soon. That I will definitely

announce on this feed very soon. I also had some things in the analog life that have

set things back a little bit. But look for new episodes next week. With that, we'll be wrapping up the Pious the Ninth series very soon.

I would very much like to do a question and answer episode. If you have questions, comments,

or feedback, please send them to me at Steve at A2Z HistoryPage.com and we can look through those

questions and answer some of your questions and address some of your comments. So for today,

instead of a regular episode, I'm going to share with you one of the bonus content episodes that are usually

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