Why the Church Put a Dead Pope on Trial | Tales From the Bottle
‘Tales From the Bottle’ goes back to the days of the Holy Roman Empire to take a look at some of the Catholic Church’s shenanigans.
“The Cadaver Synod (also called the Cadaver Trial; Latin: Synodus Horrenda) is the name commonly given to the posthumous ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, held in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January 897. The trial was conducted by Pope Stephen VI (sometimes called Stephen VII), who was the successor to Formosus’ successor, Pope Boniface VI. Stephen accused Formosus of perjury and of having acceded to the papacy illegally. At the end of the trial, Formosus was pronounced guilty and his papacy retroactively declared null.”
More on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod
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@endless_song
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
I have not laughed this hard in a while. Just discovered this channel and now going back to the beginning of the list!
@steeveejee
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
if you look into the history of the catholic church its quite shady. When I was a kid i had a bad experience during communion practice and told my mom i am never going back to that church again. She said ok just receive your communion and I'll put you in public school. I did and that was it for me and the catholic church it has nothing to do with god
@grimgrahamch.4157
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
If I had to guess, that one Pope John was a woman. I don't remember the exact details it apparently a woman in drag rose to the top of the Catholic Church and people only figured it out after she became pregnant and gave birth in a nearby neighborhood. She was executed I believe. Officially the church denies this ever happened and that there was no woman pope, but apparently papel processions don't go down that street even to this day.
@UrsaMajorPrime
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
I was listening to this in the background and just bopping along with the history lesson, then I hear the "Aw fuck dis" and then silence – took me a hot second to realize you really had just noped out of the whole thing 😂
@stuartgilbert3969
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
My most Favourite channel on Tube. 😊
@joshyoung1440
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
I like this channel because he mispronounces words that make sense to mispronounce and in ways that make sense to pronounce them. Like several times on this channel he's pronounced things the same way I have, including today's example that took me back to the original Metroid: Prime game for GameCube, "Byzantine." The sensible English pronunciation would be "by-ZAN-tine/teen," but it's actually "BIH-zan-teen." Anyways, even your old stuff is good so it's no wonder your channel saw success 😊 keep it up!
@stuartgilbert3969
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
How Bizarre!
@krumbis
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
Byezantines😂
@skeet7075
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
Bro Made it after 7 years
@realLsf
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
Catholic weirdos. What did you expect?
@titan133760
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
The ending of this video goes to show you that some stories are so ridiculous that you just give up reading them
@4thalt
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
Seeing the "9 subscribers" thing after you now have over a million was definitely jarring.
@TheSoberSkate
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
@LargeBootyBritches
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
"Be well, forgive each other, love your god."
How could they mess that up?
"Corpse-Pope Trials".
Ah.
@xtevetyler5332
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
That's the way to end a story mate , the Catholic church is hard to comprehend it's an ecumainical matter! Drink drink. Aghhh nuns…
@timothypavlick76
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
The Church didn’t
@cs03gsboom69
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
Leave it to the catholics to think that they can put judgement on a man who had already met God.
@Ninthofnine1969
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
I thought hey this sounds like a weird story but then I seen its the Catholic Church soooooo normal behaviour then🎉🎉🎉
@bowenorcutt78
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
At least they had the decency to follow Habeas Corpus!
…Too obvious?
@im4everskilled
May 4, 2026 at 6:44 am
It's "bissan-teen", not byzan-tyne.