History of the Papacy Podcast

In this episode, Steve Guerra and Patrick Young return from the English exile communities abroad to look at what happened to those who remained in England after 1066. They explore the persecution of native clergy, the forced replacement of the Anglo-Saxon church order, and the remarkable protest of the Anonymous of York, who saw England standing at a crossroads as Rome and the Normans reshaped eve...

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The earliest bishops of Rome stepped into a Christian movement that was still taking shape, full of local traditions, theological disputes, and competing claims of authority. This episode follows figures like Linus, Clement, Anacletus, Victor, Zephyrinus, Callistus, and Hippolytus as the Roman church begins to emerge as a center of leadership before Nicaea. #HistoryOfThePapacy #ChurchHistory #Earl...

In this episode, we follow a strange line from Lydia Maria Child’s The American Frugal Housewife into one of the oddest and most fascinating episodes in early American religious history. Mordechai Manuel Noah, one of the most prominent Jewish Americans of the early 19th century, imagined Grand Island in the Niagara River as Ararat, a city of refuge for the Jewish people. The plan failed almo...

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After the Norman Conquest, many Anglo-Saxon nobles, clergy, and warriors refused to submit and instead chose exile, fleeing not just to Scotland and Scandinavia, but all the way to Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire. The episode explores the remarkable tradition of around 10,000 English exiles traveling by ship, receiving lands from the emperor, and helping form English communities far fr...

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This is the eighth and probably final installment of Garry and Steve’s Guide to the Apocalypse. The belief in the life a person would live after death changed drastically during the Second Temple Jewish period. We will discuss the beliefs that developed around the afterlife and how they changed.   You can learn more about the History of Papacy and subscribe at all these great places:&nb...

In this episode, Steve Guerra and Patrick Young explored how the Norman Conquest reshaped far more than the English throne, remaking the Church, culture, and power structures of Anglo-Saxon England. They discussed papal backing for William’s invasion, the drive for ecclesiastical uniformity, the displacement of native clergy, and the deeper changes that rippled across the Christian world aft...

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This is the seventh installment of Garry and Steve’s Guide to the Apocalypse. Today, we will get into the detail of the Book of Revelation, also known as the Apocalypse of St. John. This books is full of symbolism, numerology and much more!    You can learn more about the History of Papacy and subscribe at all these great places:  http://atozhistorypage.com/  Email: steve...

In this first collaboration with Patrick Young of the Forgotten Christianity Substack, we looked at the Norman invasion of Anglo-Saxon England through a religious lens, asking how 1066 transformed not just a kingdom, but the English Church itself. Steve Guerra and Patrick Young explored papal power, the growing divide between East and West, and the older Christian world the Normans helped uproot....

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This is the sixth installment of Garry and Steve’s Guide to the Apocalypse. In this episode Garry and I give an overview of the Apocalypse of St. John, better known as the book of Revelations.  It is an exciting and confusing book, to say the least. You can learn more about the History of Papacy and subscribe at all these great places: http://atozhistorypage.com/ email: steve@atozhistor...

The Plague of Cyprian tore through the Roman Empire, leaving death, fear, and uncertainty in its wake. In this episode, we revisit this third century pandemic with new research, a post COVID perspective, and the powerful words of Cyprian as he guided Christians through crisis. This is not just a story about disease, but about how faith, courage, and meaning emerged in a world that felt like it was...

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This is the fifth installment of Garry and Steve’s Guide to the Apocalypse. In this episode Garry and I discuss the narrative arch of the character Satan. It is curious why his stock went down over the course of Second Temple Judaism. Join us as we try to see why this reassessment took place. You can learn more about the History of Papacy and subscribe at all these great places: http://atozh...

In this episode, we looked at Josiah Strong’s Our Country and the wider Protestant fears that shaped late nineteenth century America, especially anxiety over Catholic immigrants, cities, and the future of the nation. We then connected those ideas to the racialized hatred faced by Italian immigrants, culminating in the 1891 mass lynching in New Orleans, where anti-immigrant prejudice and publ...

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In this episode we start to peel back the layers of history behind of the meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch of Kirill of Moscow in February of 2016. Many claims of superlatives have been made about this meeting. Was it the first meeting of its kind? We will see, the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches have some good reasons to push the reset button. You can learn more about the Histor...

How did the Catholic Church take root in the early United States? In this full documentary episode of The History of the Papacy, I brought together the complete story of the Catholic Church in America from the Revolutionary era to the Civil War. This episode followed the Church from its fragile beginnings in the colonies, through the rise of John Carroll and the first American hierarchy, into the...

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Join us today as we discuss the origins of the current political and religious situation in the country of Ukraine with two actual political scientists, Pete Sleeman and Broc Rademan of the Lands of Leviathan podcast. This episode is a continuation of our series looking at the interaction where East meets West in the important country of Ukraine. Support the show: Buy me a coffee! https://buymeaco...

In this episode of History of the Papacy, Steve Guerra welcomes Josh Cohen, host of Eyewitness History and author of William F. Buckley Jr.'s Guide to Friendship in a Polarized Era. The conversation explores Buckley’s Catholic faith, his attachment to tradition, his response to the changes surrounding Vatican II, and his unusual ability to maintain friendships and civil dialogue across deep...

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