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A Dark History: The Popes: Vice, Murder, and Corruption in the Vatican Brenda Ralph Lewis
Publisher: Sterling

Lewis also has something interesting to say about welcoming the death of a relative one has to endure. With top Vatican jobs auctioned off like baubles, the papacy entered its “dark century.” After his death — quite possibly poisoned by his pathological son, Cesar Borgia — this pope's body was expelled from the basilica of Saint Peter as too evil to be buried in sacred soil. The scandals may be coming thick and strong from the Vatican at the moment, but the Church has always waged a losing battle with its own vice-ridden staff. Peter de Rossa, Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy (Corgi, 1989, 143). Although ecclesiastical corruption was then at its height, his riotous mode of life called down upon him a mild reprimand from Pope Pius II (1458– 1464), who succeeded Calixtus III in 1458 On the death of Pope Innocent VIII (1484–1492), the three likely candidates for the Holy .. Jan 21, 2014 - Initially he was four years from 1998, the Vice-Commander, then six years commander of the Swiss Guard. But.the current dark times also carry a disgusting odor. Sep 18, 2012 - At age 27, Rodrigo was made vice-chancellor of the Vatican. Saints & Sinners: A History of the Popes. On the strength of it and some other poems, after 1918 Hopkins soon came to be viewed as the greatest English religious poet since the 17th century, and possibly the greatest English poet since the death of Pope. Is there no one in Many more than that, and it'll take 100+ years to restore both the Papacy and the Church after the disaster of Vatican II, and the past five Popes! Apr 18, 2014 - He assembled a library of 60,000 volumes – a remarkable number: for Lord Sumption himself, in writing his lapidary multivolume history of the Hundred Years War, is said to have assembled only about 8,000. Sep 29, 2012 - A DARK HISTORY: THE POPES: Vice, Murder and Corruption in the Vatican, by Brenda Ralph Lewis. May 11, 2010 - The Catholic Church has a history.