My Own Private Avignon Papacy
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!
My tiny Recovering Irish-Catholic mind is boggled.
Today, we find out, Trump’s Pentagon thugs threatened Pope Leo— yes, the Pope— with a murderous analogy to the 14th century Avignon Papacy.
Um.
“What is The Avignon Papacy?”
Here’s the short version: in the 1300s, the Vatican’s Roman Pope was kidnapped by French King Philip, and beaten and left to die in prison while a series of “new popes” were installed by the French Monarch.
It didn’t turn out very well, but you get the drift!
Here’s the scoop that just got unearthed by The Free Press and Letters from Leo:
