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  • 37. The Nazi Pope?

    37. The Nazi Pope?
    Nov 16 2025
    Pope Pius the Twelfth remains silent while the Holocaust unfolds before his eyes. The pontiff who should have spoken truth to power chooses institutional preservation over moral courage, creating one of the most controversial legacies in papal history.

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    14 min
  • 36. The Last King

    36. The Last King
    Nov 9 2025
    Italian armies blast through the walls of Rome, ending over a thousand years of papal temporal rule. Pope Pius the Ninth becomes "the prisoner of the Vatican," losing his earthly kingdom but discovering that spiritual authority might be stronger without political complications.

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    13 min
  • 35. The Prisoner Pope

    35. The Prisoner Pope
    Nov 2 2025
    Napoleon personally arrests Pope Pius the Seventh and drags him into five years of captivity. The emperor who crowned himself demonstrates that papal spiritual claims provide no protection against military force when imperial ambitions are at stake.

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    14 min
  • 34. The Counter Attack

    34. The Counter Attack
    Oct 26 2025
    The Catholic Church strikes back with the Council of Trent, militant Jesuit shock troops, and a brutal Inquisition. The Counter-Reformation saves papal Christianity from Protestant conquest but transforms the church into a centralized, authoritarian empire.

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    15 min
  • 33. The Fire Spreads

    33. The Fire Spreads
    Oct 19 2025
    Calvin transforms Geneva into a theocratic police state while Henry the Eighth breaks England away from Rome to solve his marriage problems. Protestant ideas explode across Europe like wildfire, consuming the religious unity that had defined medieval Christendom.

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    15 min
  • 32. Monks Revolt

    32. Monks Revolt
    Oct 12 2025
    Martin Luther's hammer blows against a church door in Wittenberg echo across Europe, shattering the Catholic monopoly on Christianity forever. The German monk's challenge to papal authority ignites the Protestant Reformation and splits Western Christianity permanently.

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    15 min
  • 31. The Borgias

    31. The Borgias
    Oct 5 2025
    Alexander the Sixth transforms the Vatican into a criminal enterprise run by his murderous children Cesare and Lucrezia. Orgies in the papal apartments, systematic poisoning of enemies, and the sale of church offices turn the throne of Saint Peter into the seat of a Renaissance crime family.

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    12 min
  • 30. The Warrior Pope

    30. The Warrior Pope
    Sep 28 2025
    Julius the Second trades his papal robes for armor and personally leads armies into battle. The pope who commissioned Michelangelo also commanded cannons, proving that Renaissance papal power meant wielding both sword and paintbrush in pursuit of territorial conquest and artistic glory.

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    16 min