Papal Vault – Earliest Popes: Constantine Changes the Game
Pope Miltiades stood at the turning point when Christianity moved from persecuted religion to legal and politically important force in the R...
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History of the Papacy Podcast
This show will detail the biographies and interesting facts of the Papacy of Rome. It will start in the beginning, but will not go straight through. There will be many side tracks and detour...
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Profoundly Modern?
What happened to the Guelphs and Ghibellines after Dante's generation? The names survived for centuries, but their original meaning slowly g...
Coming Soon - When Political Labels Become Memes
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Profoundly Medieval
Pope Boniface VIII, King Philip IV of France, and Dante Alighieri all believed in Christendom, but they had radically different ideas about...
Papal Vault – Earliest Popes: Diocletian’s Persecution
The Great Peace of the Church gave Christianity room to grow, but that calm shattered under Diocletian's brutal persecution. This episode fo...
Coming Soon - Power in Action
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Faith and Artificial Intelligence: The Question of Our Time
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing work, education, medicine, creativity, and even the way podcasts like this one are produced. Ste...
Guido Guerra: A Hero in Dante’s Hell
Guido Guerra was one of the most respected Guelph leaders of medieval Florence: a soldier, statesman, and civic hero whom Dante himself clea...
Coming Soon - Dante is In Hell
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Pope or Emperor? The Guelphs and Ghibellines
For generations, the Guelphs and Ghibellines divided the cities and families of medieval Italy, but behind the strange names was a much olde...
Coming Soon - Medieval Gang Warfare
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Papal Vault - Earliest Popes Quiet Years, Growing Tensions
From Lucius to Eutychian, the papacy entered a quieter but still important period marked by disputes over baptism, renewed persecution, plag...
The Shroud of Turin: Pulling the Threads
The Shroud of Turin has been called the burial cloth of Jesus, but how far back can its documented history actually be traced? This episode...
Coming Soon - New Milestones Unlocked!
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Papal Vault – The Earliest Popes: Schism After the Storm
After the Decian persecution, the church faced a crisis over what to do with Christians who had sacrificed to the Roman gods under pressure....
Coming Soon - Read It Yourself
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Christianity Before Creeds and Canons
In this episode we ask a simple but far reaching question, before the canon and creeds were fully settled, what were Christians actually doi...
Papal Vault – Rome Falls Apart, Church Holds Together
The Roman Empire was cracking under the Crisis of the Third Century, but the Christian movement was growing stronger, more organized, and ha...
Coming Soon - A Year's Salary for the Gospel
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England’s Anonymous Against Rome
In this episode, Steve Guerra and Patrick Young return from the English exile communities abroad to look at what happened to those who remai...