Gates of Hell Podcast Project
A longform history podcast thoughtfully exploring the moments that brought the Catholic Church to the brink, and how She prevailed.
Episodes
12 episodes
Rome Has Spoken, Part Five: It Is Impossible to Govern the Church
A geopolitical history of the cataclysmic events that shaped the First Vatican Council and the Dogma of Papal Infallibly.On September 8th, the Italian king’s messenger arrived in Rome to deliver the last plea of Victor Emanuel II...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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48:03
Rome Has Spoken, Part Four: I Am Tradition, I Am the Church
A geopolitical history of the cataclysmic events that shaped the First Vatican Council and the Dogma of Papal Infallibly.Many bishops were just simply skeptical of anything Pius IX was up to, from Bishop Freppel of Anger, France:...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:10:52
Rome Has Spoken, Part Three: Rejoice, O Pope, You Are King
A geopolitical history of the cataclysmic events that shaped the First Vatican Council and the Dogma of Papal Infallibly.An Ultramontane Church instantly became a cause for the papacy. Pius threw his weight in on the issue, choos...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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56:53
Rome Has Spoken, Part Two: No One is Amnestied
A geopolitical history of the cataclysmic events that shaped the First Vatican Council and the Dogma of Papal Infallibly.This new pope, Pius IX, immediately displayed the qualities the power brokers of Europe, both lay and eccles...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:02:17
Rome Has Spoken, Part One: Plenitude of Power
A geopolitical history of the cataclysmic events that shaped the First Vatican Council and the Dogma of Papal Infallibly. After Gregory XVI died, the aristocracy of Europe convened to pressure the college of cardinals to ensure t...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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54:46
The Christ Nation, Part Five: Whispers of Freedom
A story of the persecution and survival of the Polish Church during communist rule.Jaruzelski too recognized the winds of change and embraced Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika and glasnost: progress and transp...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:20:32
The Christ Nation, Part Four: Solidarity
A story of the persecution and survival of the Polish Church during communist rule.On the dark night of December 12th, as most Poles were preparing for the coming Christmas season, Operation Azalea commenced. Phone lines in Polan...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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45:33
The Christ Nation, Part Three: The Pope in Poland
A story of the persecution and survival of the Polish Church during communist rule.The head of the KGB in Moscow, Yuri Andropov, telephoned the KGB office in Warsaw and demanded to know how they could possibly let this happen. Th...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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54:20
The Christ Nation, Part Two: Church or State?
A story of the persecution and survival of the Polish Church during communist rule.And so, it was these two men, Wyszynski and Gomulka who would represent the front lines of a new yet long forecasted confrontation: Communism VS R...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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40:15
The Christ Nation, Part One: Antemurale Christianitatis
A story of the persecution and survival of the Polish Church during communist rule.The story of this Christ-nation begins over a thousand years ago with the conversion of this agrarian people and ends in the offices of the most p...
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Episode 2
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1:03:13
The Business of the Cross
The Crusades, these Christian holy wars emblazoned into modern consciousness are explicit Catholic history. Therefore, as Catholics, we must reckon with them. In this historical narrative I attempt to answer two surprisingly difficult questions...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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4:36:40
