On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Charles Haynes <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Sidin Vadukut <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > This is the second history of the popes I'm reading in two months. And I > am > > utterly not bored. > > > Those guys were... dudes. > Indeed. > > Those guys were ... not all guys. :) > > I presume the Borgia popes play a prominent role. Did they include > Pope Leo VIII who was both a Pope AND and antipope? (Fortunately not > at the same time or he would have annihilated himself...) > Ha ha ha. And of course that most fun period when they had three popes. And detested all of them. It is remarkable how little religion there is in a history of the papacy. And also how Berlusconi-like some of them were. > -- Charles > >
