It’s hard to do justice to the story of the walking disaster that was Pope John XII. When even the historian most sympathetic to his life states, “There cannot be a doubt that John XII was anything ...

Pope John XII, born Octavian, was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 16 December 955 to his death in 964.

There are names that live in history as lights of moral courage. And then there are names that live in infamy — not because of what men did, but because of what they did not do. Pope Pius XII, the ...