Bad popes

Sep. 19th, 2006 08:26 pm
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Today's Guardian article on Pope Benedict XVI featured a sidebar on bad popes of past. The most amusing was John XII:

And in what was a low point for the sexual morals of the papacy, in 954 the 18-year-old John XII, the son of a previous pope, took office and turned the Lateran - the papal palace before the Vatican - into a brothel, and was ultimately murdered a decade later by an outraged cuckold who found him in flagrante with his wife.

I knew I should have opted for the black and not the red...

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