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Ep 217 - Medieval Conclaves
🕑 Added 2025-04-30 12:00:21 +0000 UTCpatrons, here is your ad-free episode of the week, we answered questions from vivi and Benjamin Cisko.
folks, as you might know, there's a papal conclave coming up, what with the passing of Pope Francis and all that, so we decided to talk about the Medieval conclaves. now, technically, conclaves didn't begin until 1059 CE but we're not letting that stop us, we're going all the way back to The Rock himself, Peter, and talking about papal succession through the ages. mostly because, if you only start in 1059, you miss a lot of fun stuff like a barbarian king imposing a law on the Church to tell them to tone down the money spent on papal elections and something called the Pornocracy. then we get to the later Medieval and Early Modern papal conclaves, which are also fun.
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Gil the Gilded Dragon
You can tell who ISNT the Opus Dei guy bc they are the ones that died "in perfectly normal" ways As to picking a papal nominee: look to where new saints have been raised.
Gil the Gilded Dragon
Look, the Pornocatrices are working women, they will balance the papal budget But the clerical celibacy kinda... like if it wasn't the case the church would have been a lot more family business. Its only simony if magic powers are getting transferred; otherwise it is sparkling privatization
Gil the Gilded Dragon
Right? Give pageantry, persecute heresies such as prosperity gospel & abuse of parochial authority by rendering them to the "Civil Authorities"... Heck return to earlier modes & go Easter at St Sepulcher 365 days a year. To become an archbishop one must at least have a nose broken in defense of the faith Though locking the scheming vipers seems apt
Angel-of-Deadlifts
I feel like I want a return to the Borgia style papacy. Like I can imagine Cesare FW the early modern dolls
