CLASSIC: A Dead Pope Goes To Court

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🗓️ 3 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The Catholic Church is no stranger to scandal and controversy, but in January of 897 the institution was home to a new and unique scandal that put the garden variety tales of adultery and financial corruption to shame. Listen in to learn what drove Pope Stephen VI (also sometimes called Pope Steven VII) to dig up one of his predecessors and put the corpse of another Pope on trial.

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0:00.0	fellow ridiculous historians, Catholic and non-Catholic alike.
0:04.6	Thank you so much for tuning into this weekend's classic episode.
0:09.9	I am Ben.
0:11.0	That's our super producer, Max.
0:13.7	Noel, there's a lot of Catholicism in the news recently.
0:19.3	Or a hat or whatever.
0:21.4	Yeah, whatever you like.
0:22.6	It's true.
0:23.1	We've got a conclave, a real-life conclave going down as we speak.
0:27.2	The process wherein a new pope is selected.
0:30.4	R.I.P. Pope Francis.
0:32.0	He's the good Pope.
0:33.2	Many have described him as, or maybe that's just me.
0:36.5	But yeah, it's kind of a big deal.
0:38.1	Yeah, and tune in to our episode on the Prophecy of the Popes from our peer podcast, stuff
0:44.8	they don't want you to know.
0:46.0	Indeed.
0:46.2	Yeah, we go deep into some lore of the Catholic Church, one of the most important, I would say one of the most important spiritual
0:58.2	and geopolitical entities on the planet as we speak. They're no stranger to scandal and controversy.
1:07.3	And back in, oh gosh, what was it, 2018 now, you and I learned about a thoroughly
1:16.1	ridiculous courtroom situation.
1:19.1	Absolutely.
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