Episode 1: Genesis
The Confessions of Anthony Raimondi
USG Audio
4.4 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Marc heads to Williamsburg, Brooklyn to meet a 70-year old gangster and hear him confess to the murder of Pope John Paul I. What he learns is that there’s a lot more to Anthony Raimondi than meets the eye.
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| 0:00.0 | Where is the closest Catholic church to you right now? |
| 0:07.8 | I bet you could get there in less than 20 minutes. |
| 0:11.7 | Whether you're at home or at work, in your car or out for a walk, |
| 0:16.1 | whether in a big city or a small town, any place in the world, either hemisphere, |
| 0:21.7 | it doesn't matter. |
| 0:24.0 | There's a Catholic church nearby. |
| 0:31.2 | There are almost a billion and a half Catholics in the world, a population equal to China. |
| 0:37.1 | And ministering to all those Catholics are more than 400,000 priests who report to more than 5,000 bishops who report to around 650 archbishops and cardinals, and they all report to one man, the Pope. |
| 0:46.3 | He oversees a vast empire of wealth. His church is one of the largest landowners in the world. |
| 0:53.1 | The Pope has the power to influence world |
| 0:55.4 | leaders. Popes have changed the course of history. Anyway, I've been thinking about all of this way too |
| 1:02.8 | much lately. I have a stack of books on the subject next to my bed. It's been keeping me up at night, |
| 1:09.4 | and it's all because of this guy. |
| 1:14.1 | You wish you guys could have seen this neighborhood years ago. |
| 1:17.5 | If you guys were seen this neighborhood years ago, you would have loved it, believe me. |
| 1:21.6 | This is Anthony. |
| 1:22.9 | Remundi, okay? |
| 1:24.7 | Anthony Ramundi. |
| 1:27.0 | Anthony has a story to tell about a pope in the Catholic Church, and we'll get to that. |
| 1:32.0 | But today, Anthony has invited my producer, Zach and I on a tour of his old neighborhood in |
| 1:36.4 | Brooklyn, New York. |
| 1:37.9 | He wants to show us something. |
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