who are the five popes in Hell well technically five popes in Hell according to the Italian poet Dante alageri before we get into the five popes that Dante placed in hell you need to understand that Dante wrote what's called The Divine Comedy it's a three-part Trilogy beginning with hell called The Inferno part two purgatory and part three paradise and pretty much for The Inferno if Dante doesn't like you if you're an enemy of his he's going to place you in hell Dante's Inferno is Bible fan fiction it's based on biblical themes but it's not necessarily Dogma or infallible and what's interesting is Dante has in hell what we might call the pope tube it's a tube in hell and God just keeps placing sinful popes in their head defeat head to feet down the tube and so today we're going to look at the five popes that are in hell but before we do you need to know something about Catholicism I wouldn't get too into that Catholic church if I was sitting and standing and kneeling it's like Simon says without a winner Mom that's blasphemy I'll see a Roser for you and would you like to say grace yes first off what is a pope according to the Catholic Church the pope or in Latin and Greek the papa is the successor of Saint Peter as you know Jesus Christ had 12 Apostles and chief among those Apostles was a man named Simon and in Matthew chapter 16 Jesus Christ changed his name from Simon to kefa in Aramaic or in Greek Petros Peter Rock and he says on this rock I will build my church and he gave him the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and so from the earliest days the Catholic church has considered the successors of Saint Peter who are the Bishops of Rome to be Peter on earth that is what a pope is but a pope is not sinless a pope is only the infallible teacher when it comes to Faith and morals and so Dante Alighieri takes five of these popes and places them in hell so let's see who those Popes are and why Dante damned them by the way I have a whole video here on YouTube on the nine layers of hell if you really want to go deep into hell you can check that out here on YouTube The Nine Circles of Hell the first pope that Dante Alighieri places into hell Pope anastasius II he was Pope from 496 to 498 he's in Kanto 11 and he's in the sixth circle of hell for heresy heresy is believing willfully the wrong thing and Pope anastasius was soft on the occasionism which was a problem in the early church with the Byzantine emperor in Constantinople and the patriarch of Constantinople favoring the heresy of the monophysites the monophysites said that Christ was a Divine person with a divine nature but that his human nature was absorbed or absconded so the idea was that Christ was fully Divine but not truly human now Pope anastasius was rumored to have given communion to photinus of thessalonica an associate of acacius and also he was said to accept the baptisms of acacius so Dante places Pope anastasius in the sixth circle of hell and he says I guard Pope anastasius he whom photinus Drw from the straight path photonus being one of the leaders of the occasion heresy however modern Dante Scholars have suggested that maybe this was a mistake and instead Dante is referring to the emperor anastasius of the same name but probably he is referring to Pope Anastasia's why because in the first 500 years the first 50 popes only two Popes are not canonized as Saint and one of them is liberius and the other is Pope anastasius the second pope placed in Hell by Dante as Pope Nicholas the third he was Pope from 1277 to 1280 and he is lampooned by Dante because of his nepotism nepotism is literally favoring your nephew in fact we get the word nephew from this root word nepos he was uh born in the powerful Orsini family in Rome and Giovanni Gaetano was appointed head of the Inquisition before being elected Pope and he took the name Nicholas in 1277 incidentally his father was a personal friend of Saint Francis of Assisi Pope Nicholas expanded papal influence by reorganizing parts of Italy and also issuing a compromise between the franciscans who were the radical spiritualists and the more moderate franciscans and he was known for his high morals and his care for the poor so why did Dante Alighieri throw him into hell well he has them in hell because he was guilty of favoring the mental Cubs in Italian what does that mean well his last name Orsini means Bears so he's favoring the Cubs his nephews his family members by using the papacy to benefit those who belong to his inner family he filled the position of three new Cardinals with his own relatives and lifted other relatives to high posts in the Catholic church he died in 1280 and was born in Saint Peter's in Rome the third Pope placed in Hell by Dante is Pope Celestine V he was Pope for only five months in the year 1294. he appears in The Inferno Canto three and here it says I saw and recognized the shade of him who do to cowardice made the great refusal this part of Hell is for the Cowardly fence sitters encourage it all I even scare myself people who do nothing when it's time to take action for the honor of the state or the honor of the church now Pope Celestine is not named and it's interesting because of all the popes placed in Hell by Dante Pope Celestine is actually a canonized Saint by the Catholic church so Dante says he's in Hell the Catholic Church says he's in heaven he was Pope for only five months why is that he was before Pope Benedict one of the very few popes who resigned the papacy he left the papacy after five months and this is why Dante calls him the coward who made the great refusal why is Dante so upset about this Pope Celestine resigned the papacy and after him that allowed the election of Pope Boniface the eighth who will get to next Pope Boniface VII is the arch nemesis of Dante Dante hates Pope Boniface VII more than any Pope perhaps more than anyone in hell he really hates Pope Boniface so by the very fact that Pope Celestine resigned and made way for his enemy Pope Boniface to eighth to come into power just for that Dante places Pope Celestine into the fires of hell now some people say maybe Dante is referring here to Pontius Pilate but most Dante Scholars say no he's referring to Pope Celestine V who resigned the papacy after fifth months and gave way to before we get to this wicked Pope according to Dante we've now covered the first three of five popes in hell and if you're learning something and you like this please hit the like button please subscribe and join over a million people who watch the DrTaylor Marshall podcast on YouTube Twitter Facebook and Rumble I appreciate all of you the subscribers who follow this Channel and who like it share it and promote it thank you also this video is brought to you by the new Saint Thomas Institute nsti if you're interested in going deeper into Christian Studies Catholic studies Old Testament New Testament philosophy theology then the new Saint Thomas Institute is for you we have 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