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and download it today. Episode 51, the turn of the popes of Rome and Christian Church,

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This month we're featuring the When Diplomacy Fails podcast, a show which takes a look at how relations between countries breaks down.

Zach Twomley asks the questions of why conflicts happen and what events brought the world to conflicts that shaped the history of our planet.

Definitely give Zach's show a try. Check out the show notes description in your player for more information. Today we're going to take a look at the time

period from the end of Pope Demasus's reign in 384 to the reign of Boniface the first, who died in 422 AD.

Often, in the books we read, the time between the reign of Damasus and Pope Leo the Great,

who was elevated to the papacy in 440 AD, is treated as a sort of intermission.

This period was no intermission at all. There was a ton

going on, both in church history and just the general secular history in general. Many of the

institutions of the church that still survive over 1,500 years later find their beginnings during

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