Pope Joan

Absolute Monarchs On Morning Joe this morning (I am watching because the WP didn’t deliver my paper today), author John Julius Norwich was a guest. The vignette associated with his visit described Italy as a...

No Halo For Thee -- The First Pope Not to Become a Saint Was Not a Bad Sort, ...

Leafing through the 1800 pages of the one-volume Spanish language Nuevo Espasa Ilustrado encyclopedia, I found a list of all 261 popes.  From the years 33 – 496 A.D., each of the first 49 popes from “San...