Send us Fan Mail In 897 AD, the Catholic Church staged the most gruesome judicial trial in history: The Cadaver Synod. Pope Stephen VI exhumed the decaying body of Pope Formosus, sat the corpse on a throne in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, and subjected it to a formal trial for ecclesiastical treason. In this episode, we explore: The Political Chaos: How the fall of the Carolingian Empire plunged Rome into the Papal Dark Ages. The Trial of Pope Formosus: Why Pope Stephen VI took r...
