Gregg Gassman

Popeular History: A Catholic History of the World

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History through Pope-Colored Glasses

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Gregg Gassman

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Jul 1, 2026

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Episodes

֎Cardinal-Elect José COBO CANO 11.09.2023

Cardinal-Elect Cobo Cano on Catholic-Hierarchy.org: https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcobcan.html     Cardinal-Elect Cobo Cano on Gcatholic.org: http://www.gcatholic.org/p/61851    See of Madrid on Catholic-Hierarchy.org: https://w,ww.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dmadr.html   See of Madrid on Gcatholic.org: http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/madr1.htm?tab=info    Parish Website o...

0.11 Rome IV- The Rule of Three (epitome) 10.09.2023

This is a summary. The unabridged original full episode can be found here. Enjoy! IMAGE:  La morte di Cesare, Abel de Pujol, 1808. Oil on canvas. This piece is housed at the Musée des beaux-arts de Valenciennes in Valenciennes, France. Via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_cl%C3%A9mence_de_C%C3%A9sar.jpg  

֎Anthony Cardinal POOLA (elevated 2022) 09.09.2023

Cardinal Poola on Salvadore Mirands's Cardinals database hosted by FIU: https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios2022.htm#Poola   2022 Vatican News interview with then-Cardinal-Elect Poola https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2022-06/dalit-india-consistory-cardinal-anthony-poola-interview.html IMAGE By Liturgy TV, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=119227662

✝🇻🇦O10 N Deacon Philip and the Ethopian Eunuch I- Living Water 08.09.2023

Conversion of Ethiopian Eunuch Acts 8:26-40 The Great Commission Mt 28:19 Some Ethopian Eunuch commentary https://www.americamagazine.org/content/good-word/acts-apostles-online-commentary-25

✝O9 U Ecumenical 07.09.2023

Acts 15:1-31 Vatican write-up on the Council of Jerusalem: https://www.vatican.va/various/basiliche/san_paolo/en/san_paolo/concilio.htm   Catholic Encyclopedia on "Judaizers"l: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08537a.htm  

✝🇻🇦😇O8 The Apostolic Protomartyr 06.09.2023

Acts 12:1-2 and more Link to the Categories of Believability episode (5 = straight up conspiracy theory) IMAGE: Virgen del Pilar, Ramón Bayeu, painting, 1780. Via Wikimedia Commons; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Virgen_del_Pilar_(Bayeu).jpg  

✝✡ Among the Gentiles IV: Christianity Explodes Like a Holy Hand Grenade in Antioch 05.09.2023

Scripture discussed: Acts 11:19-21 Example timeline of Acts: https://www.2belikechrist.com/articles/timeline-of-the-book-of-acts   Discussion of the Dating of Acts and the Marcion hypothesis: https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/opeds/actapo358006 IMAGE: Saint Luke the Evangelist from the Roslin Gospels (13th century), via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luke_by_roslin.jpg  

✝✡ Among the Gentiles III: Petrus et Cornelius 04.09.2023

In which we discuss Acts 10:25-11:18 as part of the developing distinction between Judaism and Christianity- namely from the inclusion of the righteous gentile Cornelius and his household into The Way. IMAGE: Gerbrand van den Eeckhout - Vision of Cornelius the Centurion, 1664. Oil on canvas. Created in Amsterdam, Netherlands, this piece is housed in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. V...

0.10 Rome III: The War Within (epitome) 03.09.2023

Original, long-form version: https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-bkbh2-ee592b IMAGE: "Tib. Gracchus canvassing" by John Leech, from: The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett. Bradbury, Evans & Co, London, 1850s. Via Wikipedia

֎Cardinal Soane Patita Paini MAFI (elevated 2015) 02.09.2023

Vatican Bio of Cardinal Mafi https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_mafi_spp.html   FIU/Salvatore Miranda on Cardinal Mafi https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios2015.htm#Mafi   Lordship citation: https://matangitonga.to/2008/08/01/royal-orders-presented-palace   Local news writeup on Cardinal Mafi's 2015 elevation https://www.kanivatonga.co.nz/2015/0...

✝✡ Among the Gentiles II: Peter’s Dream 01.09.2023

Scripture quoted: Acts 10:1-25 Original Martha/Mary scene: Luke 10:38-42 IMAGE: Peter's vision of a sheet with animals, the vision painted by  Domenico Fetti (1619). Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Bilddatenbank .

Development Diary 2 31.08.2023

CardiNEWS!: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255226/pope-francis-to-release-second-laudato-si-on-oct-4  

✝✡ Among the Gentiles I: Lord of the Sabbath 30.08.2023

More on Rashi and the Giant Frog. It made little frogs when you hit it: https://www.jewishanswers.org/ask-the-rabbi-2912/one-huge-frog/   Grain on the Sabbath: Lk 6:1-5 Healing on the Sabbath: Lk 6:6-10 IMAGE: Christ defends the plucking of the ears of grain on the Sabbath (August), by Marten van Valckenborch (1535-1612), ~1580-1590. Oil on canvas. This piece can be found at the Kunsthistorisches...

✝O7 The Pauline Conversion 29.08.2023

The quoted passage is Acts 9:1-19 IMAGE DESCRIPTION Ananias Restoring the Sight of St. Paul (c. 1631) by  Pietro da Cortona . provided by Anthony M. from Rome, Italy - ananias restoring the sight of st paul, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2986580  

Saint Augustine: ”Retractiones”, 2023 28.08.2023

Saint Augustine, Retractiones (free online translation via Openlibrary.org) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26216936M/The_Retractationes_of_Saint_Augustine IMAGE CREDIT: By Philippe de Champaigne (~1645-~1650) - Los Angeles County Museum of Art: online database: entry 171584, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8481227  

0.9 Rome II: Carthago Delenda Est (epitome) 27.08.2023

0.9 Original, full-length episode: https://popeularhistory.podbean.com/e/carthago-delenda-est/ IMAGE CREDIT: By Jona Lendering - Naples National Archaeological Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73596987  

֎Cardinal Peter Ebere OKPALEKE (elevated 2022) 26.08.2023

Okpaleke on Salvador Miranda's Cardinals Database hosted by FIU: https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios2022.htm#Okpaleke   Peter Ebere Okpaleke on Catholic-Hierarchy.org: https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bokpal.html Diocese of Ekwulobia on Gcatholic.org: http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/ekwu0.htm?tab=info   Diocese of Ekwulobia on Catholic-Hierarchy.org: https://www.catholic-hierarchy.or...

֎The First Judgment: I 25.08.2023

Eight cardinals are discussed. Two are declared Eminent. Six are excremmunicated.   THIS MONTH'S CARDINALS: Marengo Silva Costa Nzapalainga Mendonça Gambetti Lojudice Krajewski THIS MONTH'S GUESTS: -Roberto and Brendan of Tsar Power and The History of Saqartvelo Georgia   The modern art piece discussed is called "Piss Christ". Sister Tinny of the Holy Innocents would not permit the title to be sai...

✝O6 Stephen the Protomartyr 24.08.2023

The Stoning of Stephen, one of the first deacons, and traditionally the first Christian martyr is described in Acts 6 and 7 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Woodcut for "Die Bibel in Bildern", 1860. The Stoning of Stephen. Via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_228.png   This image is in the public domain due to its age.

✝O5 Qualifications of Deacons 23.08.2023

Today we focus on 1 Timothy 3, especially verses 8-13 IMAGE CREDIT: Fra Angelico, “Saint Peter Consecrates Saint Stephen, with the Seven Deacons,” c. 1448 (photo: Public Domain)

✝O4 Bishops and Apostolic Succession 22.08.2023

Catholic Encyclopedia on  Apostolic Succession: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01641a.htm IMAGE CREDIT: Wolfgang Sauber | CC BY-SA 3.0 Anonymous, ~1180 St Peter Consecrating St Hermagoras as Bishop of Aquileia in Presence of St Mark Fresco from the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta Via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aquileia_Basilica_-_Krypta_Fresco_Bischofsweihe_Hermag...

✝O3 The Priestly Puzzle 21.08.2023

What connections, if any, are there between the priesthood of Judaism and the priesthood of early Christianity? IMAGE CREDIT: Photograph of medieval canvas "Abraham and Melchisedek" Dieric Bouts,the older . At  The Church of Saint Peter, Leuven, Belgium  -  http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Fotos/Abraham-Melchisedek.jpg "Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon" (URL:  http://www.heiligenlexikon.de ) released thi...

0.8 Rome I: All Vias Lead to Italia (epitome) 20.08.2023

Content warning: Rape. I also say "hookers", because I'm not going to let the opportunity for a Futurama reference pass by unclaimed. Full-length original 0.8: https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-zkhr8-e66c7c   0.8 Supplemental: The Twelve Tables: https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-br6tm-e78daf   IMAGE CREDIT: The Capitoline Wolf, by Unknown artist - Jastrow (2006), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.o...

֎Cardinal Konrad KRAJEWSKI (elevated 2018) 19.08.2023

Cardinal Krajewski on Salvador Miranda's Cardinals database hosted by FIU: https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios2018.htm#Krajewski   Vatican writeup of Cardinal Krajewski: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_krajewski_k.html 2013 Interview with then-Archbishop Krajewski https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/30/konrad-krajewski_n_4363663.html   L...

✝O2 The First Deacons 18.08.2023

Some sample chronologies of Acts: https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:035ee1f9-19b5-3d76-8911-9ee2a0f09d53 https://www.2belikechrist.com/articles/timeline-of-the-book-of-acts Quotations: "In those days when" Acts 6:1 "So the Twelve gathered all" Acts 6:2-6 "So the word of God spread" Acts 6:7 IMAGE: Section of a  fresco  in the  Niccoline Chapel  by  Fra Angelico , depicting...

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