This week’s pope was elected in the most unusual of ways. A bird landed on his head. That's right, A BIRD.  

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The Pope Who Battled Attila the Hun (St. Leo the Great)

The unvarnished, non-boring history of the popes of the Roman Catholic Church – told in a way to remind us that the world and the Church’s problems today have happened plenty of times before. 

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