Popes In Hell: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 46 - 63
Now we come to it: the daring part, the audacious part, and (dare we say it?) the funny part.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we stand with our pilgrim, Dante, and his guide, Virgil, on the floor of the third evil pouch, the third of the malebolge, in the eighth circle of Inferno with its many rings of fraud.We know we're in for a condemnation of the church. But nothing could prepare the reader--or the pilgrim!--for the notion that a Holy Father can end up in hell.What a passage this is, full of interiority and bravado, all woven in a fine tapestry with ever so many threads!Here are the segments…
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