Gregg Gassman
Popeular History: A Catholic History of the World
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 8:49
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 6:58
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 6:02
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 8:55
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 7:24
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 5:11
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 6:53
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 8:40
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 5:25
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 7:48
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 6:42
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 7:07
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 5:03
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 5:02
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 7:31
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 5:57
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 6:55
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 30:54
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 4:17
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 3:43
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 3:46
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 6:39
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 5:52
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 7:34
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 5:53
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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