Tier Ranking Every Modern Pope

The Catholic Talk Show

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Christianity

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🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode of The Catholic Talk Show, Ryan & Ryan rank every pope in the modern era (1846-2025) from Pius IX to Leo XIV 00:00 Ranking the Modern Popes 02:57 Pope Paul VI 06:58 Pope Pius IX: 09:28 Pope John Paul I 12:15 Pope Benedict XV 14:45 Pope St. Pius X 17:44 Pope St. John XXIII 19:57 Pope Leo XIII 22:52 Pope Pius XI 25:35 Pope St. John Paul II 28:44 Pope Pius XII 34:04 Pope Benedict XVI 41:43 Pope Francis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	to learn more. Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Catholic talk show. Today we're going to be
0:34.4	doing something fun. We're going to be ranking the modern popes. That's right. We're going to take a look at every pope since the fall of the papal
0:41.2	states until the current Pope, Pope Leo the 14th. And we're going to put them on a ranking and
0:44.9	explain why. It's going to be a fun episode. Stick around. All right, man, good thing we have you on this show, Ryan Shield, because I don't know all the
1:11.9	modern popes.
1:14.9	Well, I think, look, this is going to be arbitrary.
1:17.8	It's going to be fun.
1:18.7	We're going to take a look at all the popes.
1:20.0	And for this exercise, we're defining a modern pope all the way to Pius, the ninth, which
1:27.3	is after the fall of the papal states,
1:29.4	when the pope no longer has territory that he rules as a secular sovereign governor,
1:34.8	up until the current pope. So that's what I'm largely defining as the modern popes.
1:39.7	The era. It's going to be that that era. So going to be a lot of fun. I'll share the link so you can make your own ranking using the same system. And you can share that with us and let us know what we got wrong and where you disagree. Now, before we get started, make sure you click the like and subscribe button. It's the easiest way you could participate in the mission of the Catholic talk show. And when we look at our stats on YouTube, it shows that over 75% of the people who watch this show, statistically, right now, don't click the
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