Episodios

  • Introducing Lives of the Popes

    Introducing Lives of the Popes
    Mar 16 2026

    One must beware a rabbit hole.

    Article: https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/lives-popes-part-one-infinity/

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    15 m
  • Popes of the Apostolic Era

    Popes of the Apostolic Era
    Mar 18 2026

    The first three popes after St. Peter likely knew the Prince of the Apostles personally and may even have been hand-selected by him. We know little of Sts. Linus and Cletus, but the first writing we possess by a pope after St. Peter himself is a precious letter by Pope St. Clement I to the Church of Corinth.

    Article: https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/popes-apostolic-era-lives-popes-2/

    Audiobooks of Pope St. Clement's letters:

    Letter to the Corinthians https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/st-clement-rome-letter-to-corinthians/

    Apocryphal Second Letter https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/so-called-second-letter-st-clement/

    More about St. Clement's Letter on Way of the Fathers https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/clement-rome-earliest-christian-author-after-apostles/

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    10 m
  • The Ten Popes of the Second Century

    The Ten Popes of the Second Century
    Mar 18 2026

    Little is known about many of the popes of the second century. Several of them were martyrs. They had to deal with different heresies that made their way to Rome, and there was also a controversy over the correct date of Easter.

    This episode covers popes #5-#14: Sts. Evaristus, Alexander I, Sixtus I, Telesphorus, Hyginus, Pius I, Anicetus, Soter, Eleutherius, and Victor I.

    Article: https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/ten-popes-second-century/

    Way of the Fathers https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/category/way-fathers/

    Way of the Fathers on St. Irenaeus of Lyons (an important source about the early popes) https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/irenaeus-lyon-putting-smack-down-on-heresy/

    Catholic Culture Audiobooks https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/category/audiobooks/

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    21 m
  • The First Antipope

    The First Antipope
    Mar 30 2026

    The first four of the six popes covered in this installment found themselves in conflict with a priest named Hippolytus, the most brilliant intellectual of the Roman Church at the time. Hippolytus would become the first antipope in the history of the Church, plaguing three successive papacies with his schism. Yet his story has a happy and even poetic ending.

    This episode covers popes #15-#20: Sts. Zephyrinus, Callistus I, Urban I, Pontian, Anterus, and Fabian.

    Article https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/first-antipope/

    Modalism https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/47-heresies-modalism-god-as-monad-with-three-names/

    St. Hippolytus of Rome https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/ep-17the-long-strange-trip-hippolytus-rome/

    Leo XIII's encyclical on marriage https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/leo-xiii-on-what-marriage-owes-to-church/

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    14 m