Today’s episode is a Popecast Redux about a pope who may well have single-handedly kept the known world from a very, very different future. In fact, 2021 marks the 450th anniversary of his masterstroke – a convening of both corporeal and a spiritual armies to lead the Catholic Christian West to victory in one of the greatest sea battles ever fought.

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<li><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47917/lepanto" rel="nofollow">Lepanto by G.K. Chesterton</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.crisismagazine.com/2016/the-banners-of-lepanto" rel="nofollow">&quot;The Banners of Lepanto&quot; by Fr. George Rutler</a></li>
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The Slave Who Became Pope (St. Callistus I)

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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