pell discussion forum: august 21, 2019

Now someone is trying to say the Italian mafia leaned on Victorian mafia leaned on Victoria police and not a single actual person involved has made the slightest squeak? ... If it’s not the Italian mafia it’s the Pope. . It’s ridiculous. . I suspect even the Mafia are disgusted by..

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/archaeologyandhistory/rights-exempt/history-magazine/2016/01-02/cadaver-synod/cadaver-synod-opener.ngsversion.1495570952489.adapt.1900.1.jpg

inside the cadaver synod, the trial of a dead pope's body

In the late ninth century, the papacy played a central role in violent power struggles across the Italian peninsula. ... Some praised him as a just and pious pope; others were unable to forgive him for favoring the German Arnulf over the Italian Spoleto clan. . . . ..

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