Pope Fights: Antipopes, Schisms, and Trump's Vatican Problem (ft. Eleanor Janega)
The Catholic Church has spent two thousand years fighting about who actually gets to be Pope — and this year, it's happening twice at once.
The Society of St. Pius X, the traditionalist breakaway group that's been in schism with Rome since the 1980s, just got hit with a fresh round of excommunications. Meanwhile, US officials floated the idea of backing an antipope against Leo XIV after a very public spat with the Trump administration. Two crises, one institution, and a lot of history nobody in the mainstream coverage is bothering to explain.
Katelyn and Christine are joined by historian…
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