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Thank you for checking out this little teaser of the history of the papacy and church.

Here's a little taste of what's coming up soon on the History of the Papacy podcast. It really is. If you think of the way of modern church functions,

it really does have both of those. It has the temple and the synagogue functions combined up.

It's a clubhouse and it's the liturgical worship space where the Jews of the second

temple had that split up via the temple.

That's where the liturgical functions happened.

But most people weren't going to go to the temple.

I think there was requirements that you had to go there a certain amount of times.

But, I mean, as a practical matter, more than 200 miles really is probably more than

anybody could ever go, more than a handful of times in their lives.

If you even lived 50 miles away,

you know, convert that to your favorite metric number,

but you get the gist of it.

Anything more than a week's walk away

is probably not anything you're doing with any frequency.

Well, no, given that, what, 95% of the population

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