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November 3, 1534

Posted on November 4, 2020 by Joel Byers

On November 3, 1534, the English parliament passed the Act of Supremacy and made Henry VIII, and all subsequent English monarchs, the Head of the Church of England, which effectively ended the Catholic Church’s power in… Continue reading →

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June 30, 636

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Joel Byers

On June 30, 636, King Chinchilla (King Chintila) of Spain convoked the Fifth Council of Toledo. It was attended by twenty-two bishops and two episcopal representatives. The bishops of Narbonensis refused to attend for political… Continue reading →

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June 29, 2011

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 2011 Pope Benedict XVI announced the launch of the Vatican’s news website “Vatican General Information News Association” and it would be found at news.vagina. When the Pope was asked why name it news.vagina, he said was because it was news from the Va(tican) G(eneral) I(nformation) N(ews) A(ssociation) and that … Continue reading →

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February 16, 600 AD

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 600 AD Pope Gregory the Great decreed that when a person sneezed, the only correct response was to say “God Bless You” as quickly as possible. This was to keep the sneezer’s soul from escaping. Some people tried saying “Blessed be You” and “May the Un-named God of Your … Continue reading →

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November 19, 1095

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1095 AD, Pope Urban II called the Council of Clermont, which had the purpose of organizing the First Crusade to free Jerusalem and the Holy Lands from the Islam Menace. Pope Urban II told the kings of the Western countries that he didn’t expect the Crusade to last more … Continue reading →

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October 18, 707

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 707 AD Pope John VII was bludgeoned to death by a cuckolded husband while he was engaged in coitus with the offended man’s wife. He was buried in the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was wrong, just wrong.

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July 29th, 1968

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 1968 Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church’s stance against artificial methods of birth control. He did state that women could still use crocodile dung as a pessary or they could tie a weasel’s testicles to their inner thighs. It was advised that the weasel be kept alive … Continue reading →

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December 30, 1993

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1993 the Vatican officially recognized Israel as a sovereign nation. When asked why it took so long (Israel declared itself a nation in May 1948), Pope John Paul II answered that these things take time and the Catholic Church wanted to make sure that Israel’s nationhood stuck and wasn’t … Continue reading →

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December 8, 1854

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. This theory holds that Mary, mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment she was conceived. It was later learned from her diary, “The Life and Times of a Good Girl Born to be Better”, … Continue reading →

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July 18, 1870

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Joel Byers

On This Day in HISTORY in 1870 – The First Vatican Council decreed the dogma of papal infallibility. Immediately afterwards Pope Pius IX walked into one of the free-standing marble pillars in the Vatican while walking and talking with Don Joao Carlos de Saldanha Oliveria e Daun, the Prime Minster of Portugal and promptly broke … Continue reading →

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