Popeular History: A Catholic History of the World

IMAGE CREDIT MEDEF ,  CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons LINKS Vatican bio of Cardinal Philippe BARBARIN: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_barbarin_p.html    Philippe BARBARIN on FIU's Cardinals Database (by Salvador Miranda): https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios2003.htm#Barbarin    Cardinal Philippe BARBARIN on Gcatholic.org: https://gcath...

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Including the future of Cardinal Numbers (hint: it's not changing)

Not a spelling mistake, a pun. I do those. Search up "dubia letter" if you're scrathing your head over the title. LINKS Catholic Herald coverage of Cardinal Müller’s church split comments: https://thecatholicherald.com/cardinal-muller-warns-church-risks-split-if-orthodox-pope-not-chosen/   Apostolic Constitution Romano Pontifici Eligendo (1975): https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/it/apost_cons...

Bonus facts to make up for the earlier error: when the 1378 conclave rolled around, it had been 74 years since a Papal conclave taken place in Rome. Many of the participating Cardinals hadn't been born yet, with the only reasonably confirmed exception being the aged Pierre Flandrin, who had been a toddler.  Testament of the Holy Father Francis: https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/...

Apologies for getting ahead of things, but this is something I have ready, which really helps it jump ahead in line. Plus I want you to know how to join in Adopt-A-Cardinal fun, starting on Saturday!   Thanks to Bry and Fry from Pontifacts for joining me to talk about about 135+ cardinals all at once!

Spoiler alert: the new name is “Popeular History: A Catholic History of the World”. So not much different. Unless you’re a search engine. Are you a search engine? Also yeah, I said history twice. I like history. TRANSCRIPT Welcome to Popeular History: History through Pope-Colored Glasses. Or perhaps I should say “welcome to Popeular History: A Catholic History of the World”? Hard to tell. No, I’m...

TRANSCRIPT Welcome to Popeular History, History through Pope-colored glasses. My name is Gregg. As you know, Pope Francis passed away yesterday, and the Catholic Church is in a period of transition. I spoke about my podcast plans for the present sede vacante yesterday, so if you want more on that look there. Today I’d like to talk a bit about Pope Francis. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Fr...

THANKS Thanks to all you listeners, and to those who have supported me through the years and especially through this most recent hiatus. Also thanks to Marco of the Storia d’Italia podcast ( https://italiastoria.com/ ) for giving authenticity to the Italian quote–which, incidentally, I believe I mistranslated somewhat: It’s normally rendered as “when one Pope dies, we make another”, giving additio...

Not gonna transcript this, but bottom line enjoy your Easter when it comes, hiatus is continuing, current target for getting back to regular schedule is 6/29/25 (5th anniversary of the show). There will still be some new collab stuff coming out including a special on the fascinating 1769 conclave where the Holy Roman Emperor showed up in person while pretending to not be the Emperor, which will be...

Reminder that I will be speaking in multiple settings at the online Intelligent Speech conference this Saturday, Feb 8th. Get your tickets at intelligentspeechonline.com and use the promo code Popeular for a special discount. See you there!

Hello everyone, As you know if you catch my personal updates, and apparently you do because you're listening to one now, I got a new job recently. And it's been amazing I'm finally putting my library degree to use in the service of my hometown. I run mobile operations, so I schedule the bookmobile- or rather, I schedule the Mobile Library, since Marketing wants to make sure people know it's more t...

IMAGE Romanuspontifex, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons LINKS Luis Gerardo CABRERA HERRERA on Catholic-Hierarchy.org: https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcahe.html      Luis Gerardo CABRERA HERRERA on Gcatholic.org: https://gcatholic.org/p/24679    2009 Vatican Biographical Summary of Luis Gerardo CABRERA HERRERA (Italian): https://press.va...

IMAGE Vida Católica Mundial, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons LINKS Vicente BOKALIC IGLIC on Catholic-Hierarchy.org: https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbokalic.html     Vicente BOKALIC IGLIC on Gcatholic.org: https://gcatholic.org/p/33395   2010 Vatican Biographical Summary of Vicente BOKALIC IGLIC (Italian)): https://press.vatican.va/con...

IMAGE Uriel jesusfb, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons LINKS Carlos Gustavo CASTILLO MATTASOGLIO on Catholic-Hierarchy.org: https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcasmat.html    Carlos CASTILLO MATTASOGLIO on Gcatholic.org: https://gcatholic.org/p/62393   2019 Official Biographical Summary of Carlos Gustavo CASTILLO MATTASOGLIO (Italian)...

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LINKS Vatican News coverage of announcement: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-10/pope-francis-announces-consistory-for-creation-of-new-cardinals.html Crux coverage of the announcement: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2024/10/pope-gives-nods-to-peripheries-and-pals-in-naming-21-new-cardinals   TRANSCRIPT Hey folks it’s Gregg, bringing some Cardinews you’ve probably been expecting if you’re...

Quinn is from Nobelesse Oblige! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nobelesse-oblige/id1637021887 I mentioned Pope Predictor on X (formerly Twitter) https://x.com/pope_predictor?lang=en   Links to the relevant episodes: AVELINE (7/5/24) LANGLOIS (7/12/24) KAMBANDA (7/19/24) HÖLLERICH (7/26/24) LACROIX (8/3/24) GOH SENG CHYE (8/10/24) TAGLE (8/17/24) GRECH (8/24/24) RIBAT (8/31/24) WOELKI (9/7/24...

LINKS Intelligent Speech Conference (code POPEULAR): www.intelligentspeechonline.com The Holy Org Chart:  https://podcastaddict.com/the-popeular-history-podcast/episode/168461488 History in the Bible books link (they’re all out now!): https://www.historyinthebible.com/books.html   Catchism: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM   TRANSCRIPT Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know tha...

An unscripted personal update, and then a quick chat about two Cardinals whose discussion is overdue. Who will advance?: Cardinal STURLA episode (10/4/2023): https://popeularhistory.podbean.com/e/daniel-fernando-cardinal-sturla-berhout-daniel-sturla-sdb/ Cardinal CLEEMIS (Thottumkal) episode (10/8/2023) https://popeularhistory.podbean.com/e/isaac-cardinal-thottumkal-baselios-cardinal-cleemis-eleva...

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IMAGE DESCRIPTION Oxyrhynchus Papyrus fragment with text of John 6:8-12. 3rd century. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:POxy1596-III.jpg LINKS Words of Jesus ("All the Red Letter Scriptures"): https://www.jesusbelieverjd.com/all-the-red-letter-scriptures-of-jesus-in-the-bible-kjv/     Parallel Passages in the Gospels: https://www.bible-researcher.com/par...

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IMAGE CREDIT:  Quirinale.it, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons LINKS St Peter’s Colonnade Statues: https://stpetersbasilica.info/Exterior/Colonnades/Saints-List-Colonnades.htm    Vatican bio of Cardinal Zuppi: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_zuppi_mm.html          Matteo Maria Zuppi on FIU's Cardinals Database (by Salvadore Miranda):...

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