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The Man Who Didn't Want To Be Pope
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Length:
12 minutes
Released:
Dec 10, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
On February 10, 2013, in what began as a rather innocuous assembly, Pope Benedict the XVI stunned the world by announcing that he would be retiring.
Not only were people stunned, but to paraphrase King George in the Musical Hamilton, most people weren’t even aware that was something a pope could do.
Yet, it is something popes can do, and the precedent was set over 700 years earlier.
Learn more about Pope Celestine V, the man who really didn’t want to become pope.
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Not only were people stunned, but to paraphrase King George in the Musical Hamilton, most people weren’t even aware that was something a pope could do.
Yet, it is something popes can do, and the precedent was set over 700 years earlier.
Learn more about Pope Celestine V, the man who really didn’t want to become pope.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Dec 10, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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