In 1492, something else happened besides Columbus sailing the ocean blue, namely, that the most notorious pope EVER ascended to the Chair of Peter. This week it&#39;s the guy who typically tops the list of every rundown of the so-called “Bad Popes”, and who was described by contemporary historian as “more evil and more lucky than perhaps any pope before him”.

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<li><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=jgDVSSisM0sC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=We+have+heard+the+the+dance+was+indulged+in+in+all+wantonness;+none+of+the+allurements+of+love+were+lacking,+and+you+conducted+yourself+in+a+wholly+worldly+manner.+Shame+forbids+mention+of+all+that+took+place,+for+not+only+the+things+themselves+but+their+very&source=bl&ots=IpuLNhDl8P&sig=ACfU3U1o-1BKW0avibesmXGfOewURZnfcQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjw4oOg3I3iAhXhPn0KHQlvD-YQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">Letter of Pope Pius II rebuking Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.papalencyclicals.net/alex06/alex06inter.htm" rel="nofollow">Inter Caetara</a> (papal bull granting Spain exclusive rights to colonize and explore the New World)</li>
<li><a href="https://projects.flocknote.com/note/2360409" rel="nofollow">Pope Alexander VI</a> (Popes in a Year - Flocknote)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_VI" rel="nofollow">Pope Alexander VI</a> (Wikipedia)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01289a.htm" rel="nofollow">Pope Alexander VI</a> (Catholic Encyclopedia)</li>
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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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