The Backstory: Dead Pope’s Body . . On Trial
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
We’ve been intrigued in the past few weeks with the ancient traditions surrounding the choice for a new pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church. But that transition hasn’t always been smooth. This is another look at one of the darkest moments in Church history. It was the Cadaver Trial of a dead pope, which took place 1100 years ago.
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| 0:00.0 | In the past couple of weeks, we've been fascinated watching an ancient tradition play out, |
| 0:05.9 | picking a new pope for the world's one and a half billion Roman Catholics. |
| 0:10.5 | You know what? The way it's done really hasn't changed much over more than a thousand years, |
| 0:15.2 | although the political intrigue is a little bit more discreet. |
| 0:19.1 | Political rivalries of all sorts go back to the dawn of human history. |
| 0:23.7 | But how far do they go when picking a spiritual leader? It seems timely to revisit this story |
| 0:29.6 | about a medieval pope whose opponents dug up his body, dressed it up in his vestments, |
| 0:35.7 | and tried him for stuff they said he did when he was alive. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm Patty Steele. Yeah, believe it or not, dead Pope on trial. That's next on the backstory. |
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