Pope Damasus I (366-384) left no detail to chance in his campaign to win election as Pope by hiring hitmen to storm the Julian Basilica and murder the nearest rival for the job and all of his supporters.
Pope John XII (955-963), known as John The Bad, was bisexual and allegedly an avowed atheist. He had dozens of lovers of either sex, including one of his father’s former concubines. He turned his papal home the Lateran Palace, into a brothel and was accused of summoning the devil during one of his numerous orgies.
Benedict IX served three papal terms between 1032 and 1048. Dante said under him the papacy reached an all-time debauched low. Benedict IX was a bisexual murderer who dabbled in bestiality, witchcraft and Satanism, and regularly threw bisexual orgies.
Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085) tried to stomp out sin within the church, including clerical marriages and the keeping of mistresses by priests. He stepped up his outlandish campaign when he pronounced it a bad thing for people to read the Bible.
John XXI (1276-1277) was the only doctor to become pontiff. He was appointed physician to the Vatican during the mid 13th century, on the strength of his medical treatise in which he proscribed lettuce leaves as a cure for toothaches, lettuce leaves to reduce sex drive and pig dung to stop nosebleeds.
Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1305) got rid of his predecessor Pope Celestine V by locking him up and leaving him to die. He was an atheist with many gay lovers and was tried for heresy, rape, sodomy and eating meat during Lent.
Pope john XXII (1410-1415) was a former pirate who only become a priest the day before he was crowned Pope. After obtaining the papacy through force of arms he went on to reign as a brutal libertine, guilty of “the most indescribable depravity”.
Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503), Rodrigo Borgia, was reputed to have started murdering at the age of 12. He became famous for a reign of astonishing profligacy and abuse of privilege, especially for his sexual voracity and the unashamed advancement of four of his illegitimate children. Alexander VI died of accidental poisoning.
Pope Paul III (1534-1549) is famous for excommunicating Henry VIII and for placing England under interdict. He also poisoned several relatives, including his mother and his niece, to gain control of his family inheritance and enjoyed an incestuous relationship with his own daughter. He killed a couple of cardinals and apparently kept a roll of about 45,000 prostitutes.
(Focus magazine)
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