The Popeular History Podcast

֎The First Judgment: I

Eight cardinals are discussed. Two are declared Eminent. Six are excremmunicated.
 
THIS MONTH'S CARDINALS:
Marengo
Silva
Costa
Nzapalainga
Mendonça
Gambetti
Lojudice
KrajewskiTHIS MONTH'S GUESTS: -Roberto and Brendan of Tsar Power and The History of Saqartvelo Georgia
 
The modern art piece discussed is called "Piss Christ". Sister Tinny of the Holy Innocents would not permit the title to be said on air and also does not recommend you look into the matter further.
 
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:The Last Judgment (1537–1541). Fresco, 13.7 × 12.0 m (539.3 × 472.4 in). Sistine Chapel, Vatican City
Via Wikimedia Commons (extensively cropped): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Last_Judgement_(Michelangelo).jpg 

֎Cardinal Peter Ebere OKPALEKE (elevated 2022)

Okpaleke on Salvador Miranda's Cardinals Database hosted by FIU:
https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios2022.htm#Okpaleke 
Peter Ebere Okpaleke on Catholic-Hierarchy.org:
https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bokpal.html
Diocese of Ekwulobia on Gcatholic.org:
http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/ekwu0.htm?tab=info 
Diocese of Ekwulobia on Catholic-Hierarchy.org:
https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dekwu.html
Kurt Vonnegut on Biafra: http://journeytoforever.org/rrlib/biafra.html 
University of South Florida oral history interview with Gertrude Chinwe Ogunkeye (CW: massacre)
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/asaba/15/ 
Igbo vs Ibo (A: Igbo)
https://youtu.be/W1E471r8fgg 
Pope Francis' ultimatum:
https://www.catholicregister.org/home/international/item/25418-pope-tells-nigerian-priests-to-accept-bishop-or-be-suspended 
Cruxnow coverage of situation as of Bishop Okpaleki's installation as Bishop of Ekwulobia:
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-africa/2020/05/nigerian-bishop-rejected-by-ahiara-diocese-installed-as-bishop-of-ekwulobia 
Ekwulobia Diocese bio of Bishop Okpaleki:
https://www.ekwulobiadiocese.org/bishop-bio
Vatican Press bio of Cardinal Okpaleke (which completely glosses over the Ahiara situation):
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_okpaleke_p.html
Cardinal Okpaleke's reaction to his elevation:
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-africa/2022/08/new-cardinal-says-he-is-worried-about-survival-of-christianity-in-nigeria
IMAGE CREDITBy Agenzia Fides - AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Sono urgenti pentimento e riconciliazione”, dice Mons. Okpaleke nell’annunciare le sue dimissioni da Vescovo di Ahiara, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=119251114 

0.9 Rome II: Carthago Delenda Est (epitome)

0.9 Original, full-length episode: https://popeularhistory.podbean.com/e/carthago-delenda-est/
IMAGE CREDIT:By Jona Lendering - Naples National Archaeological Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73596987 

Saint Augustine: ”Retractiones”, 2023

Saint Augustine, Retractiones (free online translation via Openlibrary.org)
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26216936M/The_Retractationes_of_Saint_Augustine
IMAGE CREDIT:By Philippe de Champaigne (~1645-~1650) - Los Angeles County Museum of Art: online database: entry 171584, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8481227 

✝O7 The Pauline Conversion

The quoted passage is Acts 9:1-19
IMAGE DESCRIPTION
Ananias Restoring the Sight of St. Paul (c. 1631) by Pietro da Cortona.provided by Anthony M. from Rome, Italy - ananias restoring the sight of st paul, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2986580 

✝✡ Among the Gentiles I: Lord of the Sabbath

More on Rashi and the Giant Frog. It made little frogs when you hit it: https://www.jewishanswers.org/ask-the-rabbi-2912/one-huge-frog/ 
Grain on the Sabbath: Lk 6:1-5
Healing on the Sabbath: Lk 6:6-10IMAGE:Christ defends the plucking of the ears of grain on the Sabbath (August), by Marten van Valckenborch (1535-1612), ~1580-1590. Oil on canvas. This piece can be found at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Cropped, as usual.

Development Diary 2

CardiNEWS!:https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255226/pope-francis-to-release-second-laudato-si-on-oct-4
 

✝✡ Among the Gentiles II: Peter’s Dream

Scripture quoted: Acts 10:1-25
Original Martha/Mary scene: Luke 10:38-42
IMAGE:Peter's vision of a sheet with animals, the vision painted by Domenico Fetti (1619). Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Bilddatenbank.

֎Cardinal Soane Patita Paini MAFI (elevated 2015)

Vatican Bio of Cardinal Mafi
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_mafi_spp.html 
FIU/Salvatore Miranda on Cardinal Mafi
https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios2015.htm#Mafi 
Lordship citation:
https://matangitonga.to/2008/08/01/royal-orders-presented-palace 
Local news writeup on Cardinal Mafi's 2015 elevation
https://www.kanivatonga.co.nz/2015/01/pope-appoints-tongas-first-catholic-cardinal/ 
IMAGE: Cardinal Mafi still from 10/23/2015 from Vatican Magazine "Con il cuore aperto" 23-10-2015 on youtube.com at 2:42
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0.10 Rome III: The War Within (epitome)

Original, long-form version: https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-bkbh2-ee592b
IMAGE: "Tib. Gracchus canvassing" by John Leech, from: The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett. Bradbury, Evans & Co, London, 1850s. Via Wikipedia