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In this episode of The Soul Unleashed, we explore the eschatology, and the fascinating history and theology behind Pope Benedict XII and his influential papal bull Benedictus Deus, which defined the Catholic doctrine of the Beatific Vision. Diving into the question, “What happens when we die?”, we uncover the story of Jacques Fournier, the Cistercian monk turned pope, who shaped Church teachings during the tumultuous Avignon Papacy. From inquisitions in southern France to the Albigensian Crusade, this episode weaves together history, theology, and personal eschatology, offering insights into the medieval Church and its struggles for spiritual and political authority. Resources: Papal Bull entitled “Benedictus Deus” issued on January 29, 1336 (prior to the 10-day and leap year adjustments of the Gregorian Calendar in 1582) https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/benedictus-deus-on-the-beatific-vision-of-god-13139 Born Jacques Fournier (Frenchman) in 1285 Became a Cistercian Monk Bishop of Pamiers and conducted Inquisition trials 1326 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XII Elected by mistake on Dec 20, 1334, succeeding Pope John XXII. The majority of cardinals favored Cardinal Jean-Raymond de Comminges, the Bishop of Porto. “You have elected an ignoramus”. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02430a.htm He was the third of eight popes during the “Avignon Papacy” (1309-1377) 67 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avignon_Papacy This was followed by “The Western Schism” when there were Popes […] Episode: https://mikenicholas.com/181-what-happens-when-we-die-exploring-the-benedictus-deus-on-the-beatific-vision-of-god-and-pope-benedict-xii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=181-what-happens-when-we-die-exploring-the-benedictus-deus-on-the-beatific-vision-of-god-and-pope-benedict-xii Podcast: https://mikenicholas.com/
fWotD Episode 2788: Tomb of Antipope John XXIII Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Sunday, 22 December 2024 is Tomb of Antipope John XXIII.The Tomb of Antipope John XXIII is the marble-and-bronze tomb monument of Antipope John XXIII (Baldassare Cossa, c. 1360–1419), created by Donatello and Michelozzo for the Florence Baptistry adjacent to the Duomo. It was commissioned by the executors of Cossa's will after his death on December 22, 1419 and completed during the 1420s, establishing it as one of the early landmarks of Renaissance Florence. According to Ferdinand Gregorovius, the tomb is "at once the sepulchre of the Great Schism in the church and the last papal tomb which is outside Rome itself".Cossa had a long history of cooperation with Florence, which had viewed him as the legitimate pontiff for a time during the Western Schism. The tomb monument is often interpreted as an attempt to strengthen the legitimacy of Cossa's pontificate by linking him to the spiritually powerful site of the Baptistry. The evocation of papal symbolism on the tomb and the linkage between Cossa and Florence have been interpreted as a snub to Cossa's successor Pope Martin V or vicarious "Medici self-promotion", as such a tomb would have been deemed unacceptable for a Florentine citizen.The tomb monument's design included figures of the three Virtues in niches, Cossa's family arms, a gilded bronze recumbent effigy laid out above an inscription-bearing sarcophagus supported on corbel brackets, and above it a Madonna and Child in a half-lunette, with a canopy over all. At the time of its completion, the monument was the tallest sculpture in Florence, and one of very few tombs within the Baptistry or the neighboring Duomo. The tomb monument was the first of several collaborations between Donatello and Michelozzo, and the attribution of its various elements to each of them has been debated by art historians, as have the interpretations of its design and iconography.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:02 UTC on Sunday, 22 December 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Tomb of Antipope John XXIII on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm generative Ruth.
Full Text of ReadingsWednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 475The Saint of the day is Saint John of CapistranoSaint John of Capistrano's Story It has been said the Christian saints are the world's greatest optimists. Not blind to the existence and consequences of evil, they base their confidence on the power of Christ's redemption. The power of conversion through Christ extends not only to sinful people but also to calamitous events. Imagine being born in the 14th century. One-third of the population and nearly 40 percent of the clergy were wiped out by the bubonic plague. The Western Schism split the Church with two or three claimants to the Holy See at one time. England and France were at war. The city-states of Italy were constantly in conflict. No wonder that gloom dominated the spirit of the culture and the times. John Capistrano was born in 1386. His education was thorough. His talents and success were great. When he was 26 he was made governor of Perugia. Imprisoned after a battle against the Malatestas, he resolved to change his way of life completely. At the age of 30 he entered the Franciscan novitiate and was ordained a priest four years later. John's preaching attracted great throngs at a time of religious apathy and confusion. He and 12 Franciscan brethren were received in the countries of central Europe as angels of God. They were instrumental in reviving a dying faith and devotion. The Franciscan Order itself was in turmoil over the interpretation and observance of the Rule of St. Francis. Through John's tireless efforts and his expertise in law, the heretical Fraticelli were suppressed and the “Spirituals” were freed from interference in their stricter observance. John of Capistrano helped bring about a brief reunion with the Greek and Armenian Churches. When the Turks captured Constantinople in 1453, John was commissioned to preach a crusade for the defense of Europe. Gaining little response in Bavaria and Austria, he decided to concentrate his efforts in Hungary. He led the army to Belgrade. Under the great General John Hunyadi, they gained an overwhelming victory, and the siege of Belgrade was lifted. Worn out by his superhuman efforts, Capistrano was an easy prey to an infection after the battle. He died on October 23, 1456. Reflection John Hofer, a biographer of John Capistrano, recalls a Brussels organization named after the saint. Seeking to solve life problems in a fully Christian spirit, its motto was: “Initiative, Organization, Activity.” These three words characterized John's life. He was not one to sit around. His deep Christian optimism drove him to battle problems at all levels with the confidence engendered by a deep faith in Christ. Saint John of Capistrano is Patron Saint of: Judges Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media
Prepare to be transported through time as we uncover the historical tapestry of church and state separation. Our episode may kick off with a chuckle over tortillas and feline antics, but the conversation soon picks up where we left off in our previous episode and sails into the profound ocean of the past, where the power struggles and political intricacies that led to the modern-day relationship between church and state unravel. Fr. Stephen guides us from the era of the French crown's defiance against Papal authority to the religious upheavals that heralded the rise of denominations.The journey doesn't stop there, as we navigate through the tumultuous waters of the Western Schism and the historic resolutions borne from the Council of Constance. The Renaissance, sparked by the influx of Byzantine Christians into the West, brought forth an intellectual reawakening that reshaped the very fabric of society. We traverse the philosophical and cultural shifts that arose from this pivotal moment in history, exploring how the recognition of individual dignity challenged the medieval societal structures and influenced the modern Western world. This episode is a feast for the mind, layered with tales of ecclesiastical authority, schisms, and the quest for unity that continues to influence the church and state dynamic to this day.Have something you'd love to hear Fr. Stephen and John talk about? Email us at myfriendthefriar@gmail.com or click here!
Full Text of ReadingsMonday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 473The Saint of the day is Saint John of CapistranoSaint John of Capistrano's Story It has been said the Christian saints are the world's greatest optimists. Not blind to the existence and consequences of evil, they base their confidence on the power of Christ's redemption. The power of conversion through Christ extends not only to sinful people but also to calamitous events. Imagine being born in the 14th century. One-third of the population and nearly 40 percent of the clergy were wiped out by the bubonic plague. The Western Schism split the Church with two or three claimants to the Holy See at one time. England and France were at war. The city-states of Italy were constantly in conflict. No wonder that gloom dominated the spirit of the culture and the times. John Capistrano was born in 1386. His education was thorough. His talents and success were great. When he was 26 he was made governor of Perugia. Imprisoned after a battle against the Malatestas, he resolved to change his way of life completely. At the age of 30 he entered the Franciscan novitiate and was ordained a priest four years later. John's preaching attracted great throngs at a time of religious apathy and confusion. He and 12 Franciscan brethren were received in the countries of central Europe as angels of God. They were instrumental in reviving a dying faith and devotion. The Franciscan Order itself was in turmoil over the interpretation and observance of the Rule of St. Francis. Through John's tireless efforts and his expertise in law, the heretical Fraticelli were suppressed and the “Spirituals” were freed from interference in their stricter observance. John of Capistrano helped bring about a brief reunion with the Greek and Armenian Churches. When the Turks captured Constantinople in 1453, John was commissioned to preach a crusade for the defense of Europe. Gaining little response in Bavaria and Austria, he decided to concentrate his efforts in Hungary. He led the army to Belgrade. Under the great General John Hunyadi, they gained an overwhelming victory, and the siege of Belgrade was lifted. Worn out by his superhuman efforts, Capistrano was an easy prey to an infection after the battle. He died on October 23, 1456. Reflection John Hofer, a biographer of John Capistrano, recalls a Brussels organization named after the saint. Seeking to solve life problems in a fully Christian spirit, its motto was: “Initiative, Organization, Activity.” These three words characterized John's life. He was not one to sit around. His deep Christian optimism drove him to battle problems at all levels with the confidence engendered by a deep faith in Christ. Saint John of Capistrano is Patron Saint of: Judges Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media
The Hundred Years' War rages on, and the young Dauphin Charles upon becoming king is one of the most scrawny, disease-addled kings we've ever had. But with some strategic alliances, some tax reforms, and a bit of help from a random knight emerging from the woods, he just might be able to turn this ship around.Listen to the end for "Pope Slap 2: Revenge of the Pope" (AKA the Western Schism). And stay tuned for Part 2 of Charles V, in which we'll be giving Charles his score and going into more detail about his rule, with a special appearance from the great writer Christine de Pizan!⚜️ Visit our Wordpress for episode images, score summaries, contact details and more! Make sure you leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.You can also support the show on Patreon! Join the official Angry Mob and get access to our bonus content: movie reviews, deep dives and bonus judgements.Support the show⚜️CATEGORIESBen and Eliza each give a score out of 10 for the first 4 categories. The 5th is determined by maths! The result is a total score out of 100. Enchanté: The shallow, first-impressions round: How fabulous and iconic an image have they passed down to us? En Garde: (A.K.A. “Selfish Wins”) How well did they gain and increase their personal power, either through scheming, statesmanship or good old fashion battles? Voulez-Vous: (A.K.A. “Selfless Wins”) How much would we want to live under their regime? How well did they better the world around them through law reforms and cultural projects? Ouh-Là-Là: How pearl-clutchingly scandalous were the events of their life, both in their time and down through the ages? How mad, bad and dangerous were they to know? La Vie en Throne: How many years did they reign, and how many of their children survived them? Read how these points are awarded. View all scores.
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April 5: Saint Vincent Ferrer, Priest c. 1350–1419 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of builders He slept on the floor, fasted endlessly, performed miracles, and converted thousands Saint Dominic de Guzman, a Spanish priest, founded the Order of Preachers in the early thirteenth century. He wanted to establish an Order of priests who were well educated in theology, adept at preaching the truths they lived, and who had more flexibility than a monastery-bound priest to travel and evangelize. Over a century later, today's saint was born in Saint Dominic's own country, joined the Dominican Order, and carried out in the most dynamic and complete way the essential vision of Saint Dominic. Saint Vincent Ferrer was well educated and a powerfully effective preacher. He travelled almost without cease throughout Western Europe, impacting the lives of untold thousands of people through his example of holiness, his supernatural gifts, and his preaching. Saint Vincent was the ideal Dominican. Vincent was born in Valencia, on the southern coast of Spain, to an English father and a Spanish mother. He was named in honor of Saint Vincent Martyr, who met his death in the same city in the fourth century. Vincent received an excellent education and earned a doctorate in theology at a young age. It was said that he read exclusively Scripture for three full years and had committed much of it to memory. He taught philosophy and then took up advanced studies, in Barcelona, of Islam and Judaism. Spain had a sizeable minority of Jews, and Muslims still controlled large portions of Southern Spain in Saint Vincent's day. So these studies were not merely theoretical. Saint Vincent converted a large number of Spanish Jews and interacted with Spanish Muslims on a regular basis. The ecclesial event which most marked our saint's life was the Western Schism of 1378–1418. This painful episode saw two, and eventually three, cardinals claim to be the validly elected pope. This open wound pained the Church for two generations. Some Europeans lived their whole lives knowing only a bitterly divided papacy. The Western Schism proved so intractable a problem, and caused such scandal, that it can be argued that it was the remote spark of the Reformation which caught fire through Northern Europe about one hundred years later. Such were the complexities of the Schism that Saint Vincent found himself on opposite sides of the issue from Saint Catherine of Siena and various other deeply committed Catholics. Our saint spent the better part of his life as a tireless itinerant preacher traveling along the highways and the byways of Spain, France, and Italy, drawing enormous crowds, inviting and inspiring them to a deeper life in Christ. Near the end of his life, Vincent's effective preaching played a decisive role at the Council of Constance in 1414. He convinced the Spanish King to cease supporting the very pope who Vincent had previously backed in the Schism. Vincent was man enough to see that his candidate had become an obstacle to Church unity. Vincent thus lived a hard lesson in humility when his man was abandoned, excommunicated, and judged by history to have been an antipope. Saint Vincent fittingly died on one of his incessant missionary journeys, far from home in Northern France, at the age of sixty-nine. His reputation for holiness was such that he was canonized a saint in 1455, within the lifetime of many who had heard him preach. Saint Vincent Ferrer, you lived a life of fervor and dedication to the truths of the Catholic faith, imparting the education you received to others through your witness and preaching. Come to the aid of all teachers and preachers to emulate your virtues with your same zeal for the house of the Lord.
Walking with the Saints Podcast | Feast of St. Vincent Ferrer, Patron Saint of all Construction Workers l April 5 You must have seen statues of St. Vincent Ferrer with wings. Well, it is just a representation to symbolize his swiftness and eagerness to answer the call of anyone in need. Tradition, however, recalls that one day while he was preaching, the people saw him flew away, with wings like an angel, but at the same time he continued his sermon. Afterwards, it was revealed that he went to a certain place to cure a sick person. Many more miracles are attributed to him even now. St. Vincent was a Dominican friar, born in Valencia, Spain on January 23, 1350. He was brought up as a devout Catholic so much so that even as a child he would fast on Wednesdays and Fridays and distribute alms to the poor. At eight he began his classical studies and at fourteen, he studied philosophy and theology. Then, he entered the Dominican Order when he was eighteen. After religious profession, he dedicated three years in reading and studying the Scripture. He was ordained a priest in Barcelona in 1379. Eventually, he earned his Masters and then Doctorate degrees in theology. For some years St. Vincent preached the word of God and other theological subjects. Many people came to listen to him. As a noted preacher, he travelled to England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Switzerland Italy and other Spanish cities. It was also said that he converted 25,000 Jews to Catholicism. One of the rabbis whom he converted became an archbishop and former Jewish synagogues were transformed into Catholic churches. He also converted Mohammedans and heretics. During the lifetime of St. Vincent, two scourges devastated the Church. First was the Black Death or Spanish flu which killed many people in Europe including clergy and religious. In order to fill up the needed priests in the parishes, even those with no vocation were admitted into the seminaries. This resulted in so much irregularities and laxities in the practice of religion. St. Vincent worked hard to instruct the people and to reform the clergy and the religious orders. The second scourge was the Western Schism, when the pope moved to Avignon due to political problems and urged by the influence of the King of France. The absence of the papacy from Rome for 67 years is called the “Babylonian Captivity.” St. Vincent worked very hard to influence the pope to end the schism. But all these had negative effects on him that he got seriously ill. His room was suddenly filled with heavenly light and Jesus Himself shining like the sun, surrounded by a multitude of angels, together with St. Dominic and St. Francis, came and made known to him His desire: “My will is that you preach the Gospel to Gaul and Spain, reprove the sins of men and bid them prepare for the great judgment. Though wicked men will oppose you, fear nothing. I will be with you.” Thus St. Vincent was miraculously healed and continued to preach in France and Spain and in some parts of Europe for many more years. When St. Vincent preached to the nuns of Colette of Corbie, Sr. Colette prophesied that he was going to die in France. And indeed, it happened. While in Brittany, he got very ill and unable to return to Spain, he died in Vannes, Brittany on April 5, 1419 at the age of 69. St. Vincent was buried in the Basilica Catedral de San Pedro, Vannes, France. He was canonized by Pope Callixtus III on June 3, 1455. He is invoked in many difficult circumstances in life. His outstanding Virtues are: piety, humility, charity, bravery, fidelity, obedience, generosity and fortitude. “St. Vincent, please assist me in all the works I do, deliver me from all dangers, and help me to love and help the poor and the needy.”
Questions Covered: 05:19 – I’m struggling connecting and loving a God setting up things how he wants and having no input from us. 18:55 – Slavery in the bible. Why isn't it more clear in condemning it? 29:12 – I want to ask about opulence in the Catholic Church. 36:28 – the Western Schism is a big obstacle. How does the Church explain the multiple popes 42:44 – I don't think transubstantiation is possible because I don’t believe in substances. 47:52 – Jesus says you are not supposed to give anything up until you make amends with others. Do Catholics ignore this teaching? …
March 9: Saint Frances of Rome, Religious 1384–1440 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White (Violet when Lenten Weekday) Patron Saint of motorists and widows Just to be near her was thought a blessing Today's saint, born into a wealthy noble family in the Eternal City, was married to a man from a similarly privileged family when she was just thirteen. Saint Frances earnestly sought to do the will of God in serving her husband, her children, and her home while also attempting to live a high level of holiness modeled on the life of a nun. She had desired to enter religious life from a young age, but her father refused to break his promise to give Frances in marriage to a fellow nobleman. Frances struggled with an internal conflict between her married state and the religious state to which she had originally felt called. This was not a choice between a good and a bad option. It was a natural tension in the soul of a holy woman who saw two paths open before her, both of which led to God. After her husband died and her children were grown, Saint Frances did live the ordered life of a religious, albeit outside of a convent. The divine pull that Saint Frances felt in the direction of two callings was not unusual. Other saints before her had been wives and mothers before becoming religious. The theology of the Church in the twentieth century, ratified by the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, now offers a vision of holiness which resolves much of this tension in trying to discern a vocation. The primary calling of all Christians is imparted through Baptism, fortified in Confirmation, and nourished in reception of Holy Communion. These Sacraments are sufficient armor to fit one for holiness in any and all circumstances. The married life and its natural domestic concerns are, then, as much a theater for holiness as a cloister. The Church wants all Catholics to understand daily life as its own drama in fulfilling, or rejecting, God's will. It is not that one is distracted with the details of work, family, domestic chores, and children while the real action takes place in the parish, the monastery, the retreat center, or the convent. The real action is at home, in the domestic church. It is precisely at home where Christians spend most of their time, raise their children, engage with their spouses, and accomplish the multitude of tasks that make life happen. Home and work are not spheres of life. They are life. And it would be absurd to argue that the will of God lies outside of life itself. To say that holiness is for everyone is to say that all of creation is a forum to pursue it, and that no vocation limits the opportunity to accomplish God's will. Saint Frances of Rome was a model wife and mother for forty years, often in violent and difficult circumstances provoked by skirmishes related to the Western Schism, the era of more than one pope which divided Rome's elites into warring factions. Frances' husband loved and revered her, her servants admired her, and her children adored her. In addition to performing her domestic duties so faithfully, Frances also fasted, prayed, had a vibrant mystical spirituality, and was generous with the poor. Her charity toward the destitute was not the modern charity of making charitable donations. She did the work, not someone else. She herself made personal contact with the homeless, the hungry, and beggars. Her sterling example of piety and service led her to found a group of like-minded women who lived in the world but who bound themselves to a life of prayer and service. The group was later recognized as an Order in the Church under the title the Oblates of Saint Frances of Rome. So, in addition to fulfilling her own duties, Frances also helped similarly high-placed women to avoid lives of frivolousness and mundanity. Saint Frances of Rome was generous in all things, saw her guardian angel at her side for many years, ate little more than dry bread, and had a provable gift of healing. As her reputation for holiness spread in her later years, to be in her mere presence was considered a blessing by the people of Rome. As wife, mother, and later Oblate, she stretched herself to the limit in seeking out and doing God's will, precisely as that will was transmitted to her by the Church she loved with such fervor.Saint Frances of Rome, through your intercession, aid all wives and mothers to live lives of generous service to their families. Help them to serve the domestic Church by creating, and fortifying, that cradle of holiness and culture the Church so needs to flourish.
What would it be like to witness the end of the world? Europeans in the 1340s reasonably believed they were seeing the apocalypse. In only 4 years, the Black Death killed approximately half the population. Find out what caused this plague, and what people did to try to survive.
The end of the Great Western Schism and the conclusion of the Council of Constance. [player]
Michael puts to death the claim that Pope Francis is not the pope. He distinguishes between material and formal schism and addresses those who appeal to the Western Schism for precedent for schism today.
Full Text of ReadingsThirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 150All podcast readings are produced by the USCCB and are from the Catholic Lectionary, based on the New American Bible and approved for use in the United States _______________________________________The Saint of the day is Saint John of CapistranoIt has been said the Christian saints are the world's greatest optimists. Not blind to the existence and consequences of evil, they base their confidence on the power of Christ's redemption. The power of conversion through Christ extends not only to sinful people but also to calamitous events. Imagine being born in the 14th century. One-third of the population and nearly 40 percent of the clergy were wiped out by the bubonic plague. The Western Schism split the Church with two or three claimants to the Holy See at one time. England and France were at war. The city-states of Italy were constantly in conflict. No wonder that gloom dominated the spirit of the culture and the times. John Capistrano was born in 1386. His education was thorough. His talents and success were great. When he was 26 he was made governor of Perugia. Imprisoned after a battle against the Malatestas, he resolved to change his way of life completely. At the age of 30 he entered the Franciscan novitiate and was ordained a priest four years later. John's preaching attracted great throngs at a time of religious apathy and confusion. He and 12 Franciscan brethren were received in the countries of central Europe as angels of God. They were instrumental in reviving a dying faith and devotion. The Franciscan Order itself was in turmoil over the interpretation and observance of the Rule of St. Francis. Through John's tireless efforts and his expertise in law, the heretical Fraticelli were suppressed and the “Spirituals” were freed from interference in their stricter observance. John of Capistrano helped bring about a brief reunion with the Greek and Armenian Churches. When the Turks captured Constantinople in 1453, John was commissioned to preach a crusade for the defense of Europe. Gaining little response in Bavaria and Austria, he decided to concentrate his efforts in Hungary. He led the army to Belgrade. Under the great General John Hunyadi, they gained an overwhelming victory, and the siege of Belgrade was lifted. Worn out by his superhuman efforts, Capistrano was an easy prey to an infection after the battle. He died on October 23, 1456. Reflection John Hofer, a biographer of John Capistrano, recalls a Brussels organization named after the saint. Seeking to solve life problems in a fully Christian spirit, its motto was: “Initiative, Organization, Activity.” These three words characterized John's life. He was not one to sit around. His deep Christian optimism drove him to battle problems at all levels with the confidence engendered by a deep faith in Christ. Saint John of Capistrano is Patron Saint of: Judges Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media
October 11: Saint John XXIII, Pope1881–1963Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: WhitePatron Saint of papal delegatesA smart, fatherly priest becomes a warm-hearted popeThe first Pope John XXIII was an amoral antipope. He was one of three competing popes between 1409–1417, the confusing, final chapter of the Western Schism whose power struggles and political intrigues tore at the fabric of the Church between 1378–1417. When today's saint was elected Bishop of Rome in 1958, being well versed in church history, he chose the name John XXIII to put to rest forever and always any lingering confusions about the historical status of the first John XXIII.Pope Saint John XXIII was born Angelo Roncalli into a large, humble, rural family in a mountainous region of Northern Italy. He entered the local minor seminary at the age of eleven and persevered in his philosophical and theological studies, both locally and in Rome, until his ordination in 1904. Angelo had the good fortune to know, serve, and study under a succession of well-educated, charitable, and holy pastors. Both his formal and informal Church-sponsored education created in him the winning combination of rustic common sense, broad historical vision, and cultural openness that would mark his entire life. His simple, but not simplistic, farm background, stellar education, profound life of prayer, and total immersion in the rich Catholic life and history of his native region formed and molded him into a great man.After his ordination, Father Angelo Roncalli became secretary to his bishop, a saintly and pastoral prelate whose total dedication left a deep impression on the young priest who was at his side for everything for almost ten years. Father Roncalli also edited a monthly journal, taught theology and history in the seminary, gave priestly guidance to various groups, and served as an army medic and military chaplain during World War I. His engaging personality and deep wisdom left a deep impression. He was, simply, an outstanding priest. In 1921 the Pope called him to Rome to serve the universal church in various roles, including as the Vatican representative in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece, and then as the Apostolic Nuncio to Paris near the end of WWII and beyond. In 1953 he was made a Cardinal and the Patriarch of Venice, and thus returned to some of the direct pastoral duties he loved so much and which had been so reduced during his long administrative service to the Church.In October 1958 his accumulated knowledge and experience were placed at the service of the universal Church, when at the age of seventy-six he was elected pope. He surprised the world soon afterward by calling for an Ecumenical Council, the meeting of all the world's bishops that became known as Vatican II. As pope, he published some important social encyclicals, waded into the dawning theological debates of the Council, and then died in 1963, after reigning for only four and a half years.From the age of fourteen, John XXIII had kept a spiritual journal he allowed to be posthumously published as Journal of a Soul. It reveals a trusting soul with a deep love of Jesus Christ and the Church, a man aware of all the major currents of culture, and a man of refined spirituality and profound humility. It reveals a saint. Pope John had said that he wanted to be like Pope Saint Pius X—to be born poor and to die poor. In his last will and testament he left $20 to each of the surviving members of his family. It was all he had. John XXIII was canonized on the same day as Pope Saint John Paul II on April 27, 2014. His feast day is not his date of birth, death, or ordination but the date of the opening session of Vatican II in 1962. His largely incorrupt body is visible to the faithful in a glass coffin in Saint Peter's Basilica.Pope Saint John XXIII, may your long life of dedicated and selfless service to the Church and to her faithful be an example for all priests and bishops. May they see in you an example of the Good Shepherd who cares for his flock with wisdom and tenderness.
The 1370s were a time of recovery for France. The sons of John the Good set to work rebuilding their country and driving out the English. Philip the Bold found himself tasked with retaking a number of castles and harassing English raids. But Philip did not spent those years solely as a soldier. These years see Philip beginning to flex his diplomatic muscles and learning the secrets of state building that will serve him well in the future. Time Period Covered: 1364-1380 Notable People: Philip the Bold, Charles V, Louis of Male, Bertrand Du Guesclin, John of Gaunt, Charles the Bad, Louis of Anjou Notable Events/Developments: Hundred Years War Caroline Phase, Castilian Civil War, The Western Schism, The Ghent War Check out the Nobelesse Oblige Podcast! Cover Art by Brandon Wilburn Music by Zakhar Valaha
Part 22 Unrest Leading To Renaissance Today we see the influence of the Church wane amidst both religious and societal turmoil and a brief look at two men rising in opposition to the Church. We are now in the 14th & 15th Century! The church has grown exponentially from the original 12 apostles of Jesus Christ. It has spread far and wide in the known world. However, this period in history shows that the Church is now declining rapidly – both numerically and in its influence. We look briefly today at the reasons for this. 1. Rapid Decline a. Avignon Popes (1309-1378) Firstly we look at that Agivnon Popes or as some term it “Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy.” Pressure from the French monarchy in conflict with the Papacy, caused the Papacy to move to Avignon, France from Rome in Italy. This was due to the elected Pope, Clement V refusing to move to Rome and remained in France, finally moving the whole of his court to Avignon in 1309. From here there were 7 successive Popes, elected by the French rather than Italians as before. b. Great Schism Now we have the ‘Great Schism' or the ‘Western Schism' occurred with the Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417. The Pope returned to Rome from France in 1377, after a riot in Rome to ensure that the next Pope was Italian in 1378. The French then elected a Pope of their own. There was much disputation and at one stage there were 3 Popes - the Avignon Pope: Benedict XIII; the Roman Pope: Gregory XII; the Pisa Pope: John XXIII. A Council was called by the Pisa Pope John XXIII in 1414 and agreement was reached as to the procedure of the election of a new Pope. All these events though caused a great loss of confidence in the Church. Wealth, corruption, immorality and the scandalous indulgences were rife throughout the Church, which led to much discontent and uncertainty. In the year 1453, Turkish Muslims attacked the Eastern Empire and the great Christian city of Constantinople fell. c. Bubonic Plague Bubonic Plague broke out in 1347 and killed one third of the Catholic west in 3 years. The Rise of national consciousness and strong monarchies developed in England, France & Spain resisting pressure from Rome. d. Rise in Personal Devotion There was in Northern Europe a growing movement around personal devotion to God, and therefore less reliance on the Church for spiritual insight. But more about that next week! It was also an area of global exploration with the likes of exploring greats of Magellan and Columbus. 2. Outspoken Critics of the Church There was also growing criticism of the church, particularly from within! John Wycliffe (1320-1384) - Wycliffe was a Priest in the Roman Catholic Church and a leading philosopher at Oxford University. He spoke out against church corruption, transubstantiation, confession to the priest and infallibility of the church & Pope. Many travelling bands of teachers and preachers were organised and sent out by him. Wycliffe is commonly described as the 'Morning Star of the English Reformation', who had a great desire to ensure that the Bible was made available to everyone in their own language. Therefore he initiated the translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible into English, and it was completed by his followers. He was protected by the English monarchy from Church persecution and inquisition. If you read your Bible in any language but Latin and the original languages of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek - you have much to be thankful to God for the life and work of John Wycliffe! They still do great work today and you can find out more by visiting their website: http://wycliffe.org.uk/ To get a hint of the disturbance to the Church caused by Wyclif, here are some of the things he said. Private confession... was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles. Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God. Our clerics neither evangelize like the apostles, nor go to war like the secular lords, nor toil like labourers. The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread. The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere. Any additional rules made to govern men's conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jan Hus (1374-1415) - The other main critic was the Bohemian man, Jan Hus. Hus was a priest in the Catholic Church and Rector of Prague University. Hus was strongly influenced by Wycliffe, and much to the chagrin of the Catholic Church hierarchy, he promoted personal devotion and piety; the supreme authority of the Bible; taught that the Church is the body of Christ and the head is Jesus Christ - not the Pope; and that only God can forgive sin, not the Church. Again, Hus was another man ahead of his time and one of the pioneers of the protestant church to come. Hus, because of his condemnation of much Church teaching and practise was imprisoned, tried, condemned and executed in 1415 following the Council of Constance. Again some quotes from this protesting pioneer: "Has not God himself instituted marriage, as a means to satisfy the craving for love in all men. ... For those are speaking lies in hypocrisy, who have a seared conscience, who forbid a life in marriage and abstain from foods which God has created (1 Timothy 4:1-5). I hold this to be the seed of iniquity and the root of all evil." “Many centuries have passed since the foundation of Christianity and bishops and priests have wedded and permitted themselves to be wed in honour and decency, until some Primates, Gregory VII (also called Hildebrand) and Innocent III, thousand years after the death of Jesus the Nazarene, conceived the thought to forbid marriage to priests, so that they would not love their families, would not honour their home and would be compelled to seek salvation under the wing of Rome only, remembering the protection which was to come from there against worldly powers.” Tap or click here to download this as an audio mp3 file
Hey, y'all! Throughout Catholic history there have been occasions when a rival, anti, pope will be elected by a breakaway group. That hasn't happened officially since the 15th century, but that didn't stop people from just making themselves pope anyway...But first, we have part 1: a primer of all the history and context you need for the next episode to make the most sense.
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ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA l PATRON OF THE YOUNG GIRLS AND PHILOSOPHERS Feast Day: APRIL 29 Our saint for today was a holy and influential lay person, a member of the Third Order of the Dominicans, therefore, not a nun. But she was instrumental in the return of the papacy from its captivity in Avignon, France. I am sure, many of us know St. Catherine of Siena, one of the most popular saints in the Church. Catherine Benincasa was born in Siena, the 23rd of the 25 children of a pious couple, who brought their children up in the love and fear of God. It is no wonder that Catherine, at age five, was very much in love with the Virgin Mary and prayed the Hail Mary, even while going up and down the staircase of their big house. When she was six, she had a vision of Jesus accompanied by Saints Peter, Paul and John the Evangelist. Jesus made the Sign of the Cross on her and smiled. From that moment, Catherine became very mature in her actions and words. She prayed more, made penances, and had the burning desire to practice virtues. Sometimes she would hide and scourge herself. At seven, she made a vow of virginity. When she grew up, her mother tried to find a suitable husband for her, but she remained firm in her resolve not to marry as she had already given her heart to Jesus. She cut her long hair so as not to appear attractive. When she was sixteen, she received the habit of the Third Order of St. Dominic. Then she spent three years in prayer and isolation in her own home. At 21, Catherine had a “mystical marriage” with Christ. Her confessor encouraged her to get out from her isolation and she began helping the sick and the poor. These activities attracted many to follow her examples. It was also the time of many confusions in the Church. Catherine and companions travelled to many parts of Italy to preach penance, prayer and conversion. While praying one day before the Crucifix, she received the stigmata Her pains were on her hands, feet and heart and she alone could see the wounds. Catherine lived in a time when the Church was suffering the effect of the so-called “Babylonian Captivity,” (1309-1376, when the papacy, due to conflicts between the Church and the French crown, transferred to Avignon. There were seven popes who stayed there. She wrote strong letters to the seventh pope, encouraging him to return to Rome. She also went to Avignon to plead her cause before the pope. Fortunately, Gregory XI brought the papacy back to Rome in 1376. Then again in 1378 another conflict arose after the death of Pope Gregory XI, because some cardinals doubted the legitimacy of the election of the new pope. Catherine was summoned to Rome to help in resolving the conflict, but this conflict called the Western Schism lasted many years and was resolved long after Catherine had died. Catherine was also a good writer. She wrote dialogues, prayers and letters. Her celebrated work is entitled “Dialogue on the Divine Providence.” Catherine lived on this earth for only thirty-three years. She became so exhausted and weak due to excessive fasting and penances. She died on April 29, 1380 and was canonized on June 29, 1461. In 1939, she together with St. Francis of Assisi, were declared patron of Italy and in 1999 she became the patron of the whole of Europe. She was proclaimed Doctor of the Church in 1930. The Dominican Order of St. Catherine of Siena founded by a Dominican priest is under her patronage. There are also many groups claiming her as patron saint due to her many miracles. surrender of self-will, discretion, detachment, humility, courage and perseverance. Lord, together with St. Catherine, we pray “Holy Spirit, come into my heart. Do I pray for the Pope and our Church leaders and follow their instructions?
April 5: Saint Vincent Ferrer, Priestc. 1350–1419Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: WhitePatron Saint of buildersHe slept on the floor, fasted endlessly, performed miracles, and converted thousandsSaint Dominic de Guzman, a Spanish priest, founded the Order of Preachers in the early thirteenth century. He wanted to establish an Order of priests who were well educated in theology, adept at preaching the truths they lived, and who had more flexibility than a monastery-bound priest to travel and evangelize. Over a century later, today's saint was born in Saint Dominic's own country, joined the Dominican Order, and carried out in the most dynamic and complete way the essential vision of Saint Dominic. Saint Vincent Ferrer was well educated and a powerfully effective preacher. He travelled almost without cease throughout Western Europe, impacting the lives of untold thousands of people through his example of holiness, his supernatural gifts, and his preaching. Saint Vincent was the ideal Dominican.Vincent was born in Valencia, on the southern coast of Spain, to an English father and a Spanish mother. He was named in honor of Saint Vincent Martyr, who met his death in the same city in the fourth century. Vincent received an excellent education and earned a doctorate in theology at a young age. It was said that he read exclusively Scripture for three full years and had committed much of it to memory. He taught philosophy and then took up advanced studies, in Barcelona, of Islam and Judaism. Spain had a sizeable minority of Jews, and Muslims still controlled large portions of Southern Spain in Saint Vincent's day. So these studies were not merely theoretical. Saint Vincent converted a large number of Spanish Jews and interacted with Spanish Muslims on a regular basis.The ecclesial event which most marked our saint's life was the Western Schism of 1378–1418. This painful episode saw two, and eventually three, cardinals claim to be the validly elected pope. This open wound pained the Church for two generations. Some Europeans lived their whole lives knowing only a bitterly divided papacy. The Western Schism proved so intractable a problem, and caused such scandal, that it can be argued that it was the remote spark of the Reformation which caught fire through Northern Europe about one hundred years later. Such were the complexities of the Schism that Saint Vincent found himself on opposite sides of the issue from Saint Catherine of Siena and various other deeply committed Catholics.Our saint spent the better part of his life as a tireless itinerant preacher traveling along the highways and the byways of Spain, France, and Italy, drawing enormous crowds, inviting and inspiring them to a deeper life in Christ. Near the end of his life, Vincent's effective preaching played a decisive role at the Council of Constance in 1414. He convinced the Spanish King to cease supporting the very pope who Vincent had previously backed in the Schism. Vincent was man enough to see that his candidate had become an obstacle to Church unity. Vincent thus lived a hard lesson in humility when his man was abandoned, excommunicated, and judged by history to have been an antipope. Saint Vincent fittingly died on one of his incessant missionary journeys, far from home in Northern France, at the age of sixty-nine. His reputation for holiness was such that he was canonized a saint in 1455, within the lifetime of many who had heard him preach.Saint Vincent Ferrer, you lived a life of fervor and dedication to the truths of the Catholic faith, imparting the education you received to others through your witness and preaching. Come to the aid of all teachers and preachers to emulate your virtues with your same zeal for the house of the Lord.
March 9: Saint Frances of Rome, Religious1384–1440Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White (Violet when Lenten Weekday)Patron Saint of motorists and widowsJust to be near her was thought a blessingToday's saint, born into a wealthy noble family in the Eternal City, was married to a man from a similarly privileged family when she was just thirteen. Saint Frances earnestly sought to do the will of God in serving her husband, her children, and her home while also attempting to live a high level of holiness modeled on the life of a nun. She had desired to enter religious life from a young age, but her father refused to break his promise to give Frances in marriage to a fellow nobleman. Frances struggled with an internal conflict between her married state and the religious state to which she had originally felt called. This was not a choice between a good and a bad option. It was a natural tension in the soul of a holy woman who saw two paths open before her, both of which led to God. After her husband died and her children were grown, Saint Frances did live the ordered life of a religious, albeit outside of a convent.The divine pull that Saint Frances felt in the direction of two callings was not unusual. Other saints before her had been wives and mothers before becoming religious. The theology of the Church in the twentieth century, ratified by the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, now offers a vision of holiness which resolves much of this tension in trying to discern a vocation. The primary calling of all Christians is imparted through Baptism, fortified in Confirmation, and nourished in reception of Holy Communion. These Sacraments are sufficient armor to fit one for holiness in any and all circumstances. The married life and its natural domestic concerns are, then, as much a theater for holiness as a cloister.The Church wants all Catholics to understand daily life as its own drama in fulfilling, or rejecting, God's will. It is not that one is distracted with the details of work, family, domestic chores, and children while the real action takes place in the parish, the monastery, the retreat center, or the convent. The real action is at home, in the domestic church. It is precisely at home where Christians spend most of their time, raise their children, engage with their spouses, and accomplish the multitude of tasks that make life happen. Home and work are not spheres of life. They are life. And it would be absurd to argue that the will of God lies outside of life itself. To say that holiness is for everyone is to say that all of creation is a forum to pursue it, and that no vocation limits the opportunity to accomplish God's will.Saint Frances of Rome was a model wife and mother for forty years, often in violent and difficult circumstances provoked by skirmishes related to the Western Schism, the era of more than one pope which divided Rome's elites into warring factions. Frances' husband loved and revered her, her servants admired her, and her children adored her. In addition to performing her domestic duties so faithfully, Frances also fasted, prayed, had a vibrant mystical spirituality, and was generous with the poor. Her charity toward the destitute was not the modern charity of making charitable donations. She did the work, not someone else. She herself made personal contact with the homeless, the hungry, and beggars. Her sterling example of piety and service led her to found a group of like-minded women who lived in the world but who bound themselves to a life of prayer and service. The group was later recognized as an Order in the Church under the title the Oblates of Saint Frances of Rome. So, in addition to fulfilling her own duties, Frances also helped similarly high-placed women to avoid lives of frivolousness and mundanity.Saint Frances of Rome was generous in all things, saw her guardian angel at her side for many years, ate little more than dry bread, and had a provable gift of healing. As her reputation for holiness spread in her later years, to be in her mere presence was considered a blessing by the people of Rome. As wife, mother, and later Oblate, she stretched herself to the limit in seeking out and doing God's will, precisely as that will was transmitted to her by the Church she loved with such fervor.Saint Frances of Rome, through your intercession, aid all wives and mothers to live lives of generous service to their families. Help them to serve the domestic Church by creating, and fortifying, that cradle of holiness and culture the Church so needs to flourish.
Welcome back to another episode of Wanna Match Podcast - a podcast where two best friends, Emily and Sydney, come together, match, and try to explain a topic we previously researched. This week we cover the Western Schism vs. The Crying Boy Painting! Music in this episode: "Cookout" by Audiobinger Show Notes: emydblog.com/caegory/wanna-match Make sure to follow us on the socials for constant content!! We're @WannaMatchPod on Instagram, Twitter, and Tik Tok! Rate, review, and follow wherever you listen!
Donald Prudlo talked about the Western Schism. Patrick Brown shared about his podcast, Crown and Crozier. Fr Norbert Jurek spoke on the first Eucharistic procession at South Alabama. Rob Herbst previewed the Catholic Week.
Full Text of ReadingsSaturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 478All podcast readings are produced by the USCCB and are from the Catholic Lectionary, based on the New American Bible and approved for use in the United States _______________________________________The Saint of the day is Saint John of CapistranoIt has been said the Christian saints are the world's greatest optimists. Not blind to the existence and consequences of evil, they base their confidence on the power of Christ's redemption. The power of conversion through Christ extends not only to sinful people but also to calamitous events. Imagine being born in the 14th century. One-third of the population and nearly 40 percent of the clergy were wiped out by the bubonic plague. The Western Schism split the Church with two or three claimants to the Holy See at one time. England and France were at war. The city-states of Italy were constantly in conflict. No wonder that gloom dominated the spirit of the culture and the times. John Capistrano was born in 1386. His education was thorough. His talents and success were great. When he was 26 he was made governor of Perugia. Imprisoned after a battle against the Malatestas, he resolved to change his way of life completely. At the age of 30 he entered the Franciscan novitiate and was ordained a priest four years later. John's preaching attracted great throngs at a time of religious apathy and confusion. He and 12 Franciscan brethren were received in the countries of central Europe as angels of God. They were instrumental in reviving a dying faith and devotion. The Franciscan Order itself was in turmoil over the interpretation and observance of the Rule of St. Francis. Through John's tireless efforts and his expertise in law, the heretical Fraticelli were suppressed and the “Spirituals” were freed from interference in their stricter observance. John of Capistrano helped bring about a brief reunion with the Greek and Armenian Churches. When the Turks captured Constantinople in 1453, John was commissioned to preach a crusade for the defense of Europe. Gaining little response in Bavaria and Austria, he decided to concentrate his efforts in Hungary. He led the army to Belgrade. Under the great General John Hunyadi, they gained an overwhelming victory, and the siege of Belgrade was lifted. Worn out by his superhuman efforts, Capistrano was an easy prey to an infection after the battle. He died on October 23, 1456. Reflection John Hofer, a biographer of John Capistrano, recalls a Brussels organization named after the saint. Seeking to solve life problems in a fully Christian spirit, its motto was: “Initiative, Organization, Activity.” These three words characterized John's life. He was not one to sit around. His deep Christian optimism drove him to battle problems at all levels with the confidence engendered by a deep faith in Christ. Saint John of Capistrano is Patron Saint of: Judges Saint of the Day Copyright Franciscan Media
I just finished the heaviest read so far in my pandemic reads list, Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror, about the 14th century, loosely an account of the European experience of the Black Deat… https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/07/06/notes-a-distant-mirror-by-barbara-tuchman/ Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirrorwhile live-tweeting itEnguerrand de Coucysumptuary lawsPhilip IVpapacy moving to AvignonSimony1320 PastoureauxBattle of CrécyHundred Years Warmiasma theoryflagellantsClement VI 1350 jubileemendicant ordersOrder of the GarterOrder of the StarThe Combat of the ThirtyCharles of NavarreBattle of Poitierscommerce vs guardian syndromesÉtienne MarcelGreat Ordinance of 1357JacquerieTreaty of BretignyEdward III Jean FroissartGeoffrey ChaucerIsabella Kardashian-HiltonHow the Black Death Gave Rise to British Pub Cultureknights vs archers, contemporaneous Indian editionVisconti family of ItalyWhite CompanyJohn HawkwoodGugler warJohn WycliffeseneschalBlack Princea whole bookBrethren of the Free SpiritNicholas OresmeCatherine of SienaPope Urban vs Pope Clement schismEustache DeschampsLouis 1, Duc d’OrleansGrand ButlerMahdia or Barbary CrusadeWenceslasdanse macabrethe new stylefuneral effigiesGuillaume de HersigyCharles VICrusade of Nicopolis
Julian of Norwich lived through the black death, ensuing riots, the Western Schism, and the persecution of a variety of heretical movements by the medieval Church. During a near-death experience, Julian had a mystical vision in which she discovered that God is not wrathful but loving and that sin is both necessary and an illusion.
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In this delayed episode Suzie dives into the Great Western Schism and Trevor spends some time with Claude Ruggieri. WHAT THE HISTORY? Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast, or find… Continue reading "Pope-a-palooza and The Rocket Man"
The history of the papacy, the office held by the pope as head of the Catholic Church, according to Catholic doctrine, spans from the time of Peter to the present day. During the Early Church, the bishops of Rome enjoyed no temporal power until the time of Constantine. After the Fall of the Western Roman Empire (the "Middle Ages", about 476), the papacy was influenced by the temporal rulers of the surrounding Italian Peninsula; these periods are known as the Ostrogothic Papacy, Byzantine Papacy, and Frankish Papacy. Over time, the papacy consolidated its territorial claims to a portion of the peninsula known as the Papal States. Thereafter, the role of neighboring sovereigns was replaced by powerful Roman families during the saeculum obscurum, the Crescentii era, and the Tusculan Papacy. From 1048 to 1257, the papacy experienced increasing conflict with the leaders and churches of the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire). Conflict with the latter culminated in the East–West Schism, dividing the Western Church and Eastern Church. From 1257–1377, the pope, though the bishop of Rome, resided in Viterbo, Orvieto, and Perugia, and then Avignon. The return of the popes to Rome after the Avignon Papacy was followed by the Western Schism: the division of the western church between two and, for a time, three competing papal claimants. The Renaissance Papacy is known for its artistic and architectural patronage, forays into European power politics, and theological challenges to papal authority. After the start of the Protestant Reformation, the Reformation Papacy and Baroque Papacy led the Catholic Church through the Counter-Reformation. The popes during the Age of Revolution witnessed the largest expropriation of wealth in the church's history, during the French Revolution and those that followed throughout Europe. The Roman Question, arising from Italian unification, resulted in the loss of the Papal States and the creation of Vatican City. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thehistoryexpress/support
The history of the papacy, the office held by the pope as head of the Catholic Church, according to Catholic doctrine, spans from the time of Peter to the present day. During the Early Church, the bishops of Rome enjoyed no temporal power until the time of Constantine. After the Fall of the Western Roman Empire (the "Middle Ages", about 476), the papacy was influenced by the temporal rulers of the surrounding Italian Peninsula; these periods are known as the Ostrogothic Papacy, Byzantine Papacy, and Frankish Papacy. Over time, the papacy consolidated its territorial claims to a portion of the peninsula known as the Papal States. Thereafter, the role of neighboring sovereigns was replaced by powerful Roman families during the saeculum obscurum, the Crescentii era, and the Tusculan Papacy. From 1048 to 1257, the papacy experienced increasing conflict with the leaders and churches of the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire). Conflict with the latter culminated in the East–West Schism, dividing the Western Church and Eastern Church. From 1257–1377, the pope, though the bishop of Rome, resided in Viterbo, Orvieto, and Perugia, and then Avignon. The return of the popes to Rome after the Avignon Papacy was followed by the Western Schism: the division of the western church between two and, for a time, three competing papal claimants. The Renaissance Papacy is known for its artistic and architectural patronage, forays into European power politics, and theological challenges to papal authority. After the start of the Protestant Reformation, the Reformation Papacy and Baroque Papacy led the Catholic Church through the Counter-Reformation. The popes during the Age of Revolution witnessed the largest expropriation of wealth in the church's history, during the French Revolution and those that followed throughout Europe. The Roman Question, arising from Italian unification, resulted in the loss of the Papal States and the creation of Vatican City. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thehistoryexpress/support
The history of the papacy, the office held by the pope as head of the Catholic Church, according to Catholic doctrine, spans from the time of Peter to the present day. During the Early Church, the bishops of Rome enjoyed no temporal power until the time of Constantine. After the Fall of the Western Roman Empire (the "Middle Ages", about 476), the papacy was influenced by the temporal rulers of the surrounding Italian Peninsula; these periods are known as the Ostrogothic Papacy, Byzantine Papacy, and Frankish Papacy. Over time, the papacy consolidated its territorial claims to a portion of the peninsula known as the Papal States. Thereafter, the role of neighboring sovereigns was replaced by powerful Roman families during the saeculum obscurum, the Crescentii era, and the Tusculan Papacy. From 1048 to 1257, the papacy experienced increasing conflict with the leaders and churches of the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire). Conflict with the latter culminated in the East–West Schism, dividing the Western Church and Eastern Church. From 1257–1377, the pope, though the bishop of Rome, resided in Viterbo, Orvieto, and Perugia, and then Avignon. The return of the popes to Rome after the Avignon Papacy was followed by the Western Schism: the division of the western church between two and, for a time, three competing papal claimants. The Renaissance Papacy is known for its artistic and architectural patronage, forays into European power politics, and theological challenges to papal authority. After the start of the Protestant Reformation, the Reformation Papacy and Baroque Papacy led the Catholic Church through the Counter-Reformation. The popes during the Age of Revolution witnessed the largest expropriation of wealth in the church's history, during the French Revolution and those that followed throughout Europe. The Roman Question, arising from Italian unification, resulted in the loss of the Papal States and the creation of Vatican City. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thehistoryexpress/support
The history of the papacy, the office held by the pope as head of the Catholic Church, according to Catholic doctrine, spans from the time of Peter to the present day. During the Early Church, the bishops of Rome enjoyed no temporal power until the time of Constantine. After the Fall of the Western Roman Empire (the "Middle Ages", about 476), the papacy was influenced by the temporal rulers of the surrounding Italian Peninsula; these periods are known as the Ostrogothic Papacy, Byzantine Papacy, and Frankish Papacy. Over time, the papacy consolidated its territorial claims to a portion of the peninsula known as the Papal States. Thereafter, the role of neighboring sovereigns was replaced by powerful Roman families during the saeculum obscurum, the Crescentii era, and the Tusculan Papacy. From 1048 to 1257, the papacy experienced increasing conflict with the leaders and churches of the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire). Conflict with the latter culminated in the East–West Schism, dividing the Western Church and Eastern Church. From 1257–1377, the pope, though the bishop of Rome, resided in Viterbo, Orvieto, and Perugia, and then Avignon. The return of the popes to Rome after the Avignon Papacy was followed by the Western Schism: the division of the western church between two and, for a time, three competing papal claimants. The Renaissance Papacy is known for its artistic and architectural patronage, forays into European power politics, and theological challenges to papal authority. After the start of the Protestant Reformation, the Reformation Papacy and Baroque Papacy led the Catholic Church through the Counter-Reformation. The popes during the Age of Revolution witnessed the largest expropriation of wealth in the church's history, during the French Revolution and those that followed throughout Europe. The Roman Question, arising from Italian unification, resulted in the loss of the Papal States and the creation of Vatican City. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thehistoryexpress/support
Anne of Bohemia (11 May 1366 – 7 June 1394) was Queen of England as the first wife of King Richard II. A member of the House of Luxembourg, she was the eldest daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth of Pomerania. She died at age of 28 after 12 years of marriage; she was childless, and greatly mourned by her husband. The marriage was initially unpopular in England inasmuch as, even though Anne's father was perhaps the most powerful monarch in Europe, his relatively distant area of influence could give little trade or political advantage to England, and Anne brought no dowry; instead Richard had to pay her brother a sum. But Anne appears to have won many English people over with her personality, and her efforts to help obtain royal pardons. Her father's court, based in Prague, was a centre of the International Gothic style, then at its height, and her arrival seems to coincide with, and probably caused, new influences on English art. The Crown of Princess Blanche, now in Munich, may have been made for Anne, either in Prague or Paris. She had four brothers, including Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, and one younger sister, Margaret of Bohemia, Burgravine of Nuremberg. She also had five half-siblings from her father's previous marriages. Anne is buried in Westminster Abbey beside her husband. Richard II married Anne of Bohemia as a result of the Western Schism in the Papacy that had resulted in two rival popes. According to Eduard Perroy, Pope Urban VI sanctioned the marriage between Richard and Anne, in an attempt to create an alliance on his behalf, particularly so that he might be stronger against the French and their preferred pope, Clement. Anne's father was the most powerful monarch in Europe at the time, ruling over about half of Europe's population and territory. The marriage was against the wishes of many members of his nobility and members of parliament, and occurred primarily at the instigation of Richard's intimate, Michael de la Pole. Although Richard had been offered Caterina Visconti, one of the daughters of Bernabò Visconti of Milan, who would have brought a great deal of money with her as dowry, Anne was chosen – bringing no direct financial benefits to England. She brought with her no dowry, and in return for her hand in marriage, Richard gave 20,000 florins (around £4,000,000 in today's value) in payment to her brother King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. There were also only a few diplomatic benefits – although English merchants were now allowed to trade freely within both Bohemian lands, and lands of the Holy Roman Empire, this was not much when compared to the usual diplomatic benefits from marriages made as a result of the war with France. It is, therefore, no surprise that the marriage was unpopular. On her arrival in December 1381, Anne was severely criticised by contemporary chroniclers, probably as a result of the financial arrangements of the marriage, although it was quite typical for queens to be viewed in critical terms. The Westminster Chronicler called her "a tiny scrap of humanity", and Thomas Walsingham related a disastrous omen upon her arrival, where her ships smashed to pieces as soon as she had disembarked. Nevertheless, Anne and King Richard II were married in Westminster Abbey on 20 January 1382. Tournaments were held for several days after the ceremony, in celebration. They then made a tour of the realm, staying at many major abbeys along the way. In 1383 Anne of Bohemia visited the city of Norwich, where at the Great Hospital a ceiling comprising 252 black eagles was made in her honour. Anne and Richard were only 16 years old when they first met and married. Yet these "two wispy teenagers" soon fell into a loving relationship and "over the years the king proved truly devoted to his new wife". Anne's wedding to Richard II was the fifth royal wedding in Westminster Abbey and was not followed by any other royal wedding in Westminster Abbey for another 537 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allthingsplantagenet/support
Anne of Bohemia (11 May 1366 – 7 June 1394) was Queen of England as the first wife of King Richard II. A member of the House of Luxembourg, she was the eldest daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth of Pomerania. She died at age of 28 after 12 years of marriage; she was childless, and greatly mourned by her husband. The marriage was initially unpopular in England inasmuch as, even though Anne's father was perhaps the most powerful monarch in Europe, his relatively distant area of influence could give little trade or political advantage to England, and Anne brought no dowry; instead Richard had to pay her brother a sum. But Anne appears to have won many English people over with her personality, and her efforts to help obtain royal pardons. Her father's court, based in Prague, was a centre of the International Gothic style, then at its height, and her arrival seems to coincide with, and probably caused, new influences on English art. The Crown of Princess Blanche, now in Munich, may have been made for Anne, either in Prague or Paris. She had four brothers, including Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, and one younger sister, Margaret of Bohemia, Burgravine of Nuremberg. She also had five half-siblings from her father's previous marriages. Anne is buried in Westminster Abbey beside her husband. Richard II married Anne of Bohemia as a result of the Western Schism in the Papacy that had resulted in two rival popes. According to Eduard Perroy, Pope Urban VI sanctioned the marriage between Richard and Anne, in an attempt to create an alliance on his behalf, particularly so that he might be stronger against the French and their preferred pope, Clement. Anne's father was the most powerful monarch in Europe at the time, ruling over about half of Europe's population and territory. The marriage was against the wishes of many members of his nobility and members of parliament, and occurred primarily at the instigation of Richard's intimate, Michael de la Pole. Although Richard had been offered Caterina Visconti, one of the daughters of Bernabò Visconti of Milan, who would have brought a great deal of money with her as dowry, Anne was chosen – bringing no direct financial benefits to England. She brought with her no dowry, and in return for her hand in marriage, Richard gave 20,000 florins (around £4,000,000 in today's value) in payment to her brother King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. There were also only a few diplomatic benefits – although English merchants were now allowed to trade freely within both Bohemian lands, and lands of the Holy Roman Empire, this was not much when compared to the usual diplomatic benefits from marriages made as a result of the war with France. It is, therefore, no surprise that the marriage was unpopular. On her arrival in December 1381, Anne was severely criticised by contemporary chroniclers, probably as a result of the financial arrangements of the marriage, although it was quite typical for queens to be viewed in critical terms. The Westminster Chronicler called her "a tiny scrap of humanity", and Thomas Walsingham related a disastrous omen upon her arrival, where her ships smashed to pieces as soon as she had disembarked. Nevertheless, Anne and King Richard II were married in Westminster Abbey on 20 January 1382. Tournaments were held for several days after the ceremony, in celebration. They then made a tour of the realm, staying at many major abbeys along the way. In 1383 Anne of Bohemia visited the city of Norwich, where at the Great Hospital a ceiling comprising 252 black eagles was made in her honour. Anne and Richard were only 16 years old when they first met and married. Yet these "two wispy teenagers" soon fell into a loving relationship and "over the years the king proved truly devoted to his new wife". Anne's wedding to Richard II was the fifth royal wedding in Westminster Abbey and was not followed by any other royal wedding in Westminster Abbey for another 537 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allthingsplantagenet/support
Weird History: The Unexpected and Untold Chronicles of History
Explore the fascinating tale of Baldassarre Cossa, the pirate who rose to become Pope John XXIII from 1410-1415. Discover how Cossa navigated the tumultuous period of the Western Schism (1378-1417), a time when the Catholic Church was divided by multiple popes each claiming supremacy. Learn how a man with a pirate's past seized power to lead the church and the historical implications of this chaotic era. #piratepope #Vatican #weirdhistory #BaldassarreCossa #PopeJohnXXIII #WesternSchism #CatholicChurchhistory #churchleadershipstruggle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Western Schism and pirates in the Vatican. This story deserves its on mini-series but for now...give it a listen!
You have probably never heard of Jean Gerson, and that is a shame. Most students of Church History do not even know him. But you certainly should know about Jean Gerson. Gerson is a towering figure in the 1400s, and in the history of the whole Church. In great part, he was the one able to heal the Western Schism. But because he occupies a space in between modern Protestants and Catholics, he often gets forgotten by both.
EP183 - Jason Del Rey Land of The Giants Podcast We catch up with Jason Del Rey (@DelRey) Senior Correspondent, Commerce at Recode. Jason was last on episode 67. We discuss some recent industry events and get update on this two big projects: Code Commerce September 9 and 10, in New York City. Land of The Giants: The Rise of Amazon Podcast. Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 183 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday, August 8th, 2019 Transcript Jason G: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 183 being recorded on Thursday August 8th 2019 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual you with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:39] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners we are really excited this week to have back on the show Jason Delray Jason is senior correspondent Commerce at recode he's also produces the industry event code Commerce and now joins Jason retail geek and I in the pantheon of famous podcasters he was last on the Jason Scott show on episode way back on episode 67 which was January 17th back then he was senior editor so I guess congrats on the big promotion to senior correspondent. Jason D: [1:14] I don't know if that's a joke or not but I am I am happy to be back I was going to make a sport Sports Talk radio joke which is second time long time you know. Okay well we'll keep going thanks Rodriguez. Jason G: [1:34] It's good to have you back we don't get to make fun of the next enough so. Jason D: [1:38] Oh man it's going to be a long night. Scot: [1:41] So Jason G: [1:42] So is it true that your appearance on the Jason and Scott show sort of ignited your whole passion for podcasts. Jason D: [1:50] I mean I honestly did not know what podcasting was and then I came in you guys taught me the ropes and how many years later is this I don't know took me a couple years to like. Build up the courage and skill set but here I am so thank you. Scot: [2:09] Cool fucking to the club it's exciting to have you up in the in the in the podcaster realm. Jason D: [2:17] Only for a few more weeks but hopefully they'll be a long tail of listeners that all at all extend the Land of the Giants fan club into the rest of this year. Jason G: [2:31] Absolutely and we are going to need that into that but before we get in a Land of giants I want to talk about one of your other projects it's near and dear to Scott and eyes heart. I think it might have been three years ago now but you started a series of events code Commerce. Jason D: [2:52] Yeah that's right so we started we started with these one night one night, what we would consider a live journalism events and we started inside of shop talk I think year one of shop talk we did a sort of separate one-eyed event within shoptalk that required a separate ticket and it basically 3 hours you know an hour some ways food and drinks and networking and then usually three or four what would you like to drink or no BS interviews with. You know people like in past years you know we've had people like Jack Dorsey talking about Square Katrina wake pre-ipo talking about Stitch fix Mark Lori several years ago and overtime we built that. Into a standalone today event that's why we're going on Year 3000 New York City Standalone event, that happens every September and so we're only about a month out. Jason G: [4:03] Yeah and so and you have announced some of the the guess you're going to have for the Cher show. Jason D: [4:09] We have so we've announced maybe maybe about three-quarters of the lineup which I'm super excited about we have. Entrepreneur founder CEOs like Jennifer Hyman Rent the Runway Julie Wainwright we just took the real real Public Market Lori from Walmart Jeff Rader that Co CEO and co-founder Ari's which has agreed to sell for, make 1.3 billion dollars. I cookies in the CEO of Birkenstocks in the US and the founders of away digital native luggage or they would call themselves as they call themselves travel company, so that that's that sort of off the top of my head that those are some of the great guess we'll have and we are and there's a few more as well. Jason G: [5:09] Yeah that's going to be exciting away is kind of controversy on the show because Scott is a big fan and Advocate and I'm not so much. Jason D: [5:18] Should we got into that now or should we save that. Scot: [5:21] Shirtless Jason took me like 6 years again to buy a four-wheel bag and didn't even get in a way I don't I don't know what he was thinking. Jason D: [5:31] I will say that, we are a I I have a I have a new wish four-wheel bag that was purchased by my wife at TJ Maxx and so if that doesn't give it away I'll just say it it's not in a way back and it was probably about a third of the price, but I am very fond of the look of the waybacks and I'm very very interested in whether they are able to do what they say they want to do which is, build themselves into really a. Multi products brand that sort of incompetence has all the different types of products you could need or want. Intrexon sort of in your travel life. Jason G: [6:25] It's honestly like I have a critique of the product and but more seriously of the company like the the Super Bee product line coming me miss your bag is perfectly fine I travel a lot more than either of you I've already been on planes on her 50000 miles of this year it's alright it's like it tends to be worth it to invest in the most durable bag possible and for me that like I really like a bag that can. Expand into a soft-sided expandable bag works better for me. Jason D: [6:56] Yep so what it was so what is your brand of choice. Jason G: [7:00] So I might I have a Briggs & Riley. [7:04] More expensive more durable like I've already been with Scott when he was repairing his away bag and you know I would argue I've many more miles on that I've never had a proper. But that's I mean both bags get you get what you pay for with just fine. And I don't have a huge could take my bigger thing and you know maybe I'll get a chance to bring up on in your conversation with Jen. I visited their pop-up shop in Tribeca and I thought it was a fabulous piece of retail and and you already alluded to it they get mad when you called him a luggage company they like to call themselves the travel company, and you you go to this pop-up shop and they very much, Lycra merchandising and glorifying the travel lifestyle so I know there was a lot of like. [7:58] Memorabilia and stuff that made you you know sort of aspire to go to destinations and you know it felt like the the luggage was helpful enabler of this lifestyle that away was positioning right and whenever you. You know either founder talk about the company that's exactly how they talk about it so then they started opening permanent doors. And the permanent stores are super sterile shelves with luggage on on that like I could replace the away with Samsonite or to me and it would. [8:34] Exactly the same. Jason D: [8:37] Yeah so we will definitely 100%. Talk about this I think my guess or edit my educated guess is that, they are going to sedate David they talked about that they're going to open I forgot what the number is but I believe dozens of stores is the ID across the country or maybe not just across the country, select International markets over the next few years and I think frankly they are still I think they will read thank. Their approach but I will let them speak for themselves on, try to remember if they're speaking on September 9th or September 10th at Commerce whichever day I know be sure that this will be a topic we dive into. Jason G: [9:26] Yeah I'm looking forward to it I will be there and it'll it'll be fun to hear they're there POV I'll probably check my Briggs & Riley bag so they don't have to see it. Jason D: [9:37] Hahaha well I'll bring it up on stage. Jason G: [9:41] Awesome alone at the exactly. Jason D: [9:43] Okay. Scot: [9:46] Cool awesome to see what news comes out will be doing a show we always do a recap show from there and let's talk about your podcasts to land of giants you've got the time recording the Masters three episodes out, it's kind of a different kind of flavor than kind of what we're doing here with news obviously suits to tell us about Anna what got you started on this and how you're laying it up. Jason D: [10:09] Sure and then just so just so I don't know how touchy the search the search functions are on podcast apps I'll just slightly correct that it's a land of giants so people want to search it's Landon, Giants and I'll try to make the backstory quick centrally recode inbox me decide a lot of success with podcast over the last few years my colleagues petercopter Kara Swisher they have phenomenal, interview style shows but there has been a couple of things going on at the same time but what do this first dish heater Costco friending how he came to me and said you know you should the companies looking for more podcast you should do something on Amazon and I was like okay that sounds interesting and then simultaneously their conversations and other part of the company about an idea. [11:06] Doing a narrative getting into more of narrative storytelling and podcast there's not a lot of great narrative storytelling in the business world as a relates to audio and so there was this idea to do a franchise around the fangs companies and do a season on each company so short of the idea to do something on Amazon with that interest in the Fang franchise, call West End for me the timing was for me at all about a couple of other things one is obviously there's a ton of discussion around power effect of these right now. [11:44] NBC in Saucon Valley in the media should I felt like good timing the other pieces I know you guys know this to from being in the industry, it's very easy day today till like worried about the next in my case right about the next product announcement the next business Amazon's getting into NYU know I'll have some contacts in my article is but sometimes you need to force yourself to like step out to the big picture and say like you know, you know what is the status quo in e-commerce right now like is that healthy what are the what are all the impacts on society everything this company is trying to do and so I've had all those questions in my head for a long time and there's this seems like a way to I have the time to serve both dive deep and like take a broader look at the same time so that's. So why I can I can I can give a little more detail on what we're actually try and what we're actually set out to do with the content if you'd like or I can let you guys ask me whatever you want. Jason G: [12:51] So what's up I want to get to a little more of the contact but just to make sure that our audience is tracking so that the notion is there's a season about each of the Fang companies so there's a. Amazon season I think most people Nothing But Apple Facebook Netflix and Google so it's actually faang, that's the idea you'll have a season about each of those companies and then you're you're currently three episodes into the Amazon season is there a. Dick by Jordi know how many episodes that are going to be of the Amazon season. Jason D: [13:28] Yes oh yes so there will be 7 episodes and there's a chance that episode 7 will. Will be taped alive at so Commerce and so if, is that ends up being the case episode 7 was sort of break from the format we have in each episode so far which is sort of a Storyteller telling a story basically throughout a given, atopic area involving Amazon and episode 7 would sort of be like a conversation recap of unlike of of what listeners that the Earth were the first six episodes, and so you can imagine the challenge of trying to break up Amazon's impact, and interest into six or seven episodes is not easy and so on in episode 1 we should we try to the iiibeca by I'm curious what you guys think you know the foundation of Amazon's retail rise and dominance to me is Ben Prime and so episode 1 we both have Amazon Executives and employees telling the origin story of how Prime came to be and then we also get into the consumer psychology of how Prime has been able to walk us walk you know. [14:56] Over a hundred million people into Amazon's ecosystem and makes it very hard, to break out, episode 2 of I had this big question of like what does Amazon want that you from being inside our homes with Alexa with all the connected devices with ring with Eero with you know. Basically best smart home and so we exported that question with with an Amazon executive and also. [15:27] You know some smart people as food asking some skeptical questions about you know what this future of a fully automated home, I will will, will feel like in and how that might impact our lives in the future and then third episode which aired so far was that a look at Amazon's impact on local communities among the big tech companies yeah I would argue that Amazon. Has the bigger the biggest physical impact on small communities around the around the country because of their warehouse Network, North 710 now large fulfillment centers just in the US and so we went to a small town in Kansas that which was home to one of Amazon first fulfillment centers and it was number three or four and where they left a few years ago and then told the story what happens when they came and left and I'm and then I went to my hometown of Staten Island New York which is home to one of Amazon's very new, Jerry automated fulfillment centers to get the taste of. What the promise is in a in a small community when when Amazon comes to town today I'll take a breath. Jason G: [16:41] Yeah it's it's yes I'll be curious it's interesting like I told you to greet you that Amazon has the biggest physical footprint and you know they're for like sort of physically has the most impact on those small towns some of the other ones are you know much more responsible for, deciding who are government leaders are and how we really think so it's hard to know which one has more impact on your day-to-day life but yeah. Jason D: [17:05] Totally and then and I should I should say you know yes that's 100% true you know, part part of Odysseus or the the emission of of the whole franchise Land of the Giants has been, you know it is easy in our day-to-day getting caught up in our day-to-day lives work Family Family Life, you know pleasure. What sort of what the broad impact on what the broad reach of these companies now, now he's in our lives and and that's not to say it's all bad I mean it's a lot a lot of good and I hope that you know will come across in the in the series as well but it feels like a moment in time where, you know healthy scrutiny something that the world could use a little more us. Scot: [18:02] Close Amazon been kind of supportive of this or they they didn't really engage on. Jason D: [18:08] You know that's. You know I have not gotten a lot of feedback from the company since since episode 1, are the few weeks ago so they participated in episode 1. I interviewed one of the people I interviewed was Jeff Wilke who spent it on his own two decades and is now to CEO. Best way to get the global retail business and Global consumer and he reports to Jeff Bezos in episode 2 I did it interview the vice president of the smart home at Amazon. And you know for a episode 4 which will come out the week of August 12th so. I want to watch than a week from now you know I got a tour of one of them is on a more automated warehouses for an episode about through Amazon as an employer and Automation and so Dave, but they also just you know turn down and on-the-record interview for. In episode that'll be about competition on the Amazon platform and Sherman Antitrust scrutiny so I would say. They probably participate a little more than I expected but I think they're I think they're kind of still in a way to wait and see mode. Scot: [19:37] Did you did the Fulfillment center the toward was it like Eva based or was it one of the ones like the pallet lifting robot or something that we haven't seen you. Jason D: [19:46] It was, yeah so I don't know what I didn't see in the warehouse so it's possible and had more than I saw but it what I saw it were I don't know that they call them TV anymore but yes the orange, I think they call them mobile drive units are carrying carrying the 8-foot tall shelves to their stores and their Pickers. Scot: [20:12] Got to go so you don't you like us spend a lot of time to think about Amazon what's what's something that you done the podcast that kind of was a new discovery for you. Jason D: [20:22] That's a great question I think I think so far. It reinforced a lot one of the things I thought I knew about the company over the last six years you know I will say one thing that stuck out to me that's in one of the episodes that is already aired so, episode 2 is about sort of the smart home and Alexa and. Yeah I won't give too much away for people living with him but essentially I'm talking to someone who's in the author and futurist about you know. All the types of things that Amazon might do in the future with the data they can collect and you know I ask the VP of the Smart Home. Daniel Rausch I said so you know do you guys have a team's inside of Alexa and I know you have thousands of employees working on Alexa that sort of kind of listened to like this the questions coming from the Skeptics of this you know, as I said that the echo the echo behind me Alexa. [21:30] I'm going to ignore that I'm sorry guys so they're always always listening. Scot: [21:38] At least you're still has work so they're not too angry with you when your when your Prime shipments stop in your Alexa stops then you know that you fingered the Amazon. Jason D: [21:50] I was a little surprised I asked you I asked his VP of a smart home, you're do you sort of listen to it a lot of the smart smarter Skeptics are saying and what they worry about in the future and Anna try to like maybe we'll work back from you know some of those potential. You know use cases that people are worried about or you know data collection people worried about and his answer was essentially we were young very Amazon we work back from your problems and you know. And I we start from a place of optimism always phrase like started, the amazing company it is today but also miss climbing in 2019 like saying like. Tapping the site Facebook and social networks and you know it just felt, I guess I was just surprised they've built a certain lack of knowledge mean the word seems me self-awareness. About sort of the downsides of you know the advancement that sure the fast pases, Innovation sort of Eden of even specifically like inside our hugs and that's one thing that sort of stuck out to me, that was a little surprising I'd say. Jason G: [23:15] Yeah that totally make sense I mean to me that's part of the fun of your podcast is for your point you know most listeners are they show or sort of living and stuff day today and it's like you're there some new piece of news about something Amazon's doing. Every week if not every day and it's kind of fun on the show that you you kind of, take that 50000 put View and kind of put it in a broader context then leaves. Jason D: [23:47] Yeah I'm like the chat near the challenges we're trying to do a couple things like my goal is to have Jason and Scott and the listeners of this podcast and the you know, sure the sources I have you had developed over six years day today reporting like find enough compelling story wines and and hopefully new information as well that even though they stay the day they are coming away saying, that was a pleasant storytelling experience or I learn something new or I never I didn't think of it that way while also being welcoming to people who don't live this day today but but have Amazon in their lives you know in a big way and wonder about Amazon or 1/4 about Jeff Bezos or you know shortest sit on the periphery of these industries and so I think from the feedback I've gotten the reviews I've seen I think we've done a pretty good job at that so far, but you know we'll have you know episode 6 which will be antitrust and competition on the Amazon Marketplace I can that one like we'll dive into the weeds that in a way that I think even people in the industry. It'll really really resonate West and I think will be both surprising and hopefully somewhat news-making so I'll leave that to you. Jason G: [25:07] Nice. That's a good teas are a couple of short fun facts on stuff we've already covered I can't let it go without teasing Scott Scott had an opportunity to be an early investor in Cuba and thought it was a stupid idea. Jason D: [25:19] Scot. Scot: [25:21] Yeah what was NC State Professor he was talking about how he was going to take the algorithm ants use an appliance warehouses and it just didn't didn't make sense to me that Aunt part lost me. You was right I was wrong. Jason D: [25:35] Yeah I know I'm just I'm shaking my head in this empty house right now so. Jason G: [25:44] You mention so in episode 3 you visited a, a warehouse that's now a fulfillment center is now closed you you teased us that you went to a modern performance center and episode for a fun fact for listeners, Amazon actually gives a remarkably good tour of a bunch of those, modern fulfillment center so even if you're not a fancy journalist I Jason, you you can go to a web URL and Reserve at or I take clients on these tours all the time and it's if you're in the industry or you're just interested it's super worth going, so as you're listening to episode 4 and hearing Jason's description know that you can you can follow it up with aching person experience and I'll put the donation the show notes. Jason D: [26:33] Have you been to the Staten Island New York Film Center. Jason G: [26:36] I haven't and so an interesting question which I'll see if our intern can figure out while I'm talking to you only certain of the facilities are available. For the tours. And I don't think that's an island is so like in your neck of the woods Robbinsville New Jersey and West Deptford are available. I don't see Staten Island on the list I'm in Chicago and they they have a. You have to go to Jefferson Indiana and now there's a which is a suburb of Chicago. It's pretty interesting and I presume you had a slightly different experience at the very least they let you bring a mic and they do like Frisk you for all your digital device. Jason D: [27:39] Yes yeah they were there were big they were big no no phone or no camera signs and then yeah I was going to say another I'm hesitant to say what I think my memory is surfacing right now and another know something signed but I'm wondering if maybe it was when I visited a different Amazon facility 5 years ago or 6 years ago and cnx I have a vague memory of a no guns sign but. Anyway I am a millionaire I don't remember for sure so I probably should have said it but. Jason G: [28:26] That's not going to want to listen it'll be safe I'll put Jason's phone number in the show notes. Jason D: [28:34] Speaking of Jeff speaking of Jeff Bezos I got a secret I got a little package in the mail today from from. Kara swisher and the box says Bezos primes and the hundred and hundred billion dollar man and I opened it up and it is a Jeff Bezos figurine maybe like. A foot high and it comes with a robot that he was spotted with that one of his events a few years ago, so I can maybe that can be your show mascot. Jason G: [29:09] That would be awesome is it I'm assuming because the robot is buff Jeff Bezos and not a bookstore Jeff Bezos. Jason D: [29:17] Yeah if you if you Google as I just did Jeff Bezos yellow robot the first image that comes up is Jeff Bezos walking with a. Yellow shirt of is this a robot dog Boston Dynamics robot dog and he is wearing and just in the figurine is wearing what Jeff is wearing in the soda which is. Yes. Jason G: [29:40] Patagonia obligatory BCBS. Scot: [29:43] Does it have a drawstring into the Jeff left when you. Jason D: [29:46] I couldn't I couldn't see that past the bulging bicep switch on. A little envious I honestly. Jason G: [30:00] That was really your way of just working in that Carrie Fisher knows your address which is impressive but. Jason D: [30:05] She actually she actually I've only worked with her for 6 years and she had to text me for my address the other day not that cool. Jason G: [30:15] Yeah I kind of assumed that was the case I have to compete cuz I have a current mask mascot staring at me that I was going to bring the code Commerce this year I have one of the pets.com sock puppets. Jason D: [30:30] Yes yes and I'm assuming you're saying that the guess we're going to have Julie Wainwright too and I'm back in the day at one point rent ups.com. Jason G: [30:41] If I were younger listeners pets.com was one of the the fast runners in the first free internet crash that was a precursor to Chuy and had television campaigns and it has mascot was this sock puppet dog the that that's essentially did in fact morph into Triumph the the comedian. I don't know if you know the backstory here but there are lawsuits in the whole thing that, that sort of after pest.com left that the comedian that that treated the Triumph character like bought the rights to the Past. Calm dogs, and there are some real property fights and stuff so it's fun and then the founder of pets. Com is the the also the founder of real real who's going to be at your shop. Jason D: [31:35] One correction yes she was not, not the founder of cats but feels like almost every time. Yeah journalists are very go see this on almost every time Julie is you know appears that something like. Pets.com comes up twenty years later and I'm just curious about like, maybe it's something it's a it's a role she held but I'm curious of what she'll have to do like what she has to do to like not have that be part of the, part of the story in an only reason I ask is will a, I had someone reach out to me recently after we announced her and was like really you guys still mention pens.com and it made me think about that and then being like who is the CEO and maybe it's just a bad person and I should, I should I should know whether a person is alive or what they're doing today I think it I think it might have been a George something. Jason G: [32:46] George Shaheen good job. Jason D: [32:48] Okay cool you know maybe it's just a juul he's had some level of success and I don't know that's that's enough that I don't know if that was actually a question but it's something I I was just thinking about recently and so was interested. Jason G: [33:02] If I remember correctly after webvan George became the CEO of what was then Anderson Consulting now Accenture. Jason D: [33:10] Wow I was going to say something really mean which is probably not right I was going to say failing up but but maybe I actually was not covering. Jason G: [33:19] Thank you I think I could be a correct characteristic. Jason D: [33:22] Okay sorry George. Jason G: [33:26] That way so I have a very minor version of that I started my career and was like one of the original directors of marketing a blockbuster entertainment and in my world, like every time I go visit a client the the consultant from my saying company right before I get there pops up a slide talking about how you don't want to get Blockbuster. Jason D: [33:46] Oh well. So you view a failed really up. Jason G: [33:51] I have but I would actually point out I'm feeling, down because we sold Blockbuster for 9 billion dollars people always talk about the end when a failure the company was you no railroads are not a very good, investment today but Anderson Cooper's family did pretty good on the railroad. Jason D: [34:15] I am now staring at your LinkedIn which I did not know about this. Jason G: [34:21] That I never listen. Jason D: [34:23] 1616 month. Of your work career. Jason G: [34:26] It's a slide that I have to face every single day as though. Jason D: [34:34] Listen listen as someone who grew up so when you were there I'm not going to do the age thing but okay I'll do it when you were that when you were there I was, I was in Middle School and Blockbuster was probably one of my favorite places on Earth and I have very fond memories especially now that my parents both my parents are deceased very fond memories of going into Blockbuster on Friday nights and you know, hoping you what am I remembering correctly that like the case might be out but like if you opened it. You had it like you found out whether a movie or game was in or not with whether it was actually that the case was empty or not or am I am I totally making that. Jason G: [35:21] I know you're probably thinking of an independent video store so I guess what we would have is the box art would always be there with the movie was in stock or not behind and next to that box are would be. Jason D: [35:32] Oh yes. Jason G: [35:33] 30 or 40 Blockbuster desert called Amaray cases that plastic taste it held the the video. Jason D: [35:41] Got it well well thank you for giving me this even this cloudy memory of my Friday nights as a 12 year old. Jason G: [35:50] I appreciate you making it a blockbuster night we are so getting back to more tree Topix, I want we want to transition of the podcast but one question that you you may have inadvertently. I revealed an answer already but so season 1 Amazon you are the host. There's you know it least four more seasons are you going to be the host for these other companies or are we going to meet some new character. Jason D: [36:26] Most likely not I think, this is I think there were likely be people with more expertise. Then I have on those other companies since I have spelled spent the last six years really diving deep into Amazon in e-commerce show. I don't I don't know what the 100% answer is but that is the 99%. Correct answer likely answer so no I did I did there is an appointed frankly you know that I had to make you know by choice I had to make some trade-offs as I've spent the last six months and still end on this podcast series and also working on the conference which was I've not been able to report and write as frequently as I was I would like so you know where in the beginning of August and the last story I published was a big deep dive into internal tension at Walmart and that was a month ago so I'm anxious to get back to Amor, consistent writing a Cadence starting in the fall. Scot: [37:42] Cool I like how you started filling in the middle so you're kind of like doing episode 4 Star Wars style and then you'll have to kind of go do some some will have to come in and have filling before you. Jason G: [37:56] Netflix is going to be the prequel. Jason D: [37:59] I've always wondered is Amazon the first a in the Fang that has two A's or II a. Scot: [38:06] You know Kramer coins this I'm 99% sure so we can ask him. Jason D: [38:14] Know what you tweet we we we all know no one famous actually coins that thing right there like borrow it from someone was less famous. Scot: [38:21] Not the creamer did he had it on his knuckles one night I remember I remember watching the episode. Jason D: [38:27] Okay. Scot: [38:28] What it is like really fired up here like almost like a knuckle tattoo so is like f a i n g on the. Jason G: [38:34] But am I if I'm remembering right just to jump in when Kramer did start using it Apple wasn't even one of the things so I am assuming it was literally faang and I think so therefore it has to be m. Jason D: [38:49] Someone has tried to make for the newer companies A+ happen if you heard that one. Scot: [38:58] The effort several chondromatosis they're just not as catchy of Spain. Jason D: [39:03] No and now and I can't even I can't even tell you what the A and A+ is is it I'll maybe it's Airbnb anyway. Jason G: [39:11] The G is now and they also to make things more complex. Scot: [39:15] That sounds like an Andreessen Horowitz thing cuz it sounds like they're portfolio does their PRT. Jason D: [39:23] What's an A+ that I'm forgetting which food at after is who thinks he's an investor he actually is an investor. Yes he is in a duster sorry Aspen yeah a plus. Jason G: [39:37] What in your world A+ is Ashton Kutcher in my world it's the supplemental high-value content on the Amazon product detail. Jason D: [39:46] Man we are we are just nerding. Scot: [39:52] Cool sweet recommends that listeners check out Land of the Giants make sure you get the D in there except to get the search right it's great podcast we strongly endorse it here at the Jason Scott shoe so weak since we have you Jason we thought we just kind of Heather written about the news without we pick your brain about some topics the one I'm most interested in is we've had a lot of IPOs and recently so we've had Uber Lyft are out now we got chewy real real they all Uber Lyft haven't done so great but I think the Commerce ones have done pretty well specially real rely things done quite well what he thinks next I know you follow the shoe guys close to are they tearing up or is it your way just raise a lot of capital. Country has few you have any insights into what's next in the pipeline. Jason D: [40:43] Yeah sure so I'll you know what some of the ones I've been curious about. And so so wish wishes accompany that. Assertive gone through phases of being like like very much in the business news and then you know skirt, out of the news in the business world and you know frankly I haven't checked in on their performance in a while and you know last I saw that, there are some reporting that there is there gmv or I don't know what they use for their gross number is I want to say was somewhere maybe approaching or around 10 billion and. [41:29] And I'm assuming most westerners no wish but should I tell them what it is if they down or. [41:37] Yeah so wish wish I like to think of it is essentially AliExpress but for. [41:46] The popular in different markets or sort of taobao, what the Western Schism on it essentially not it's, it's a mobile shopping app with a fee that specializes in the low price non-branded products that are very very cheap that often, will take weeks to get to you although they've they've opened up some of their own warehouses to stop for the best selling stuff, and I'm just very curious about them in it for a long time mainly for you know a lot of stuff they sell, does not last very long yeah I've wondered a lot about what you know what the expectation is with different consumers in different countries when they pay a dollar or $2 for something like is it okay that it, brakes after 4 tries or no is that going to be a significant turn issue to wish is one you know I don't I don't know what their IPO plans are I could see them going public in the next year but that's one of the companies I'm anxious to dig into when I get back to writing a little more Casper there's been a lot of talk about I still looking at you know I still work at that company and. [43:14] Msmm frankly just skeptical of a long-term independent future you know my big question with all these sort of single product for the most part I know they have some other products but single product, digital native Brands is are they really expanding the markets, they're in or they just growing much faster than previous iterations in their industry and so they're going to hit a ceiling much faster and maybe that's obvious the people but it's something I think about a lot and. I just you know I had to report a couple years ago about talks they had with Target about a potential sale for around a billion dollars should I trust one like I don't know what the outcome is but I am very curious because like I said I'm I'm skeptical the public company that Casper has a password and public company, and then some other ones instacart, I think I wish around the current valuation they seem too big to be acquired, I'd love to see you in an s-1 filing with those unit economics look like. And then one that sort of Commerce City but sort of marketplace I don't know what you got if you guys have heard much or, what that much recently is house Houzz. [44:38] You know there was a lot of talk around then maybe a year or two ago and the businesses are smart like at a certain point you just want to get want to get your economics write a certain scale and like. You don't need to be held talking to the business press as much and so that's another one that sort of all my radar to check back into. I did a good job of talking for a few minutes and not actually answering your question. Makes me feel like a PR person. Scot: [45:06] Those are good let's see how about that you guys were they big enough for you think they need some time to consolidate. Jason D: [45:18] Yeah I I mean iced I still think those are so there's there's good and there's stockx. Which just, data breach which took them a long time to reveal actually I think I just got an e-mail today but I feel like I saw it reported last week maybe. My opinion is I think I think those are acquisition place. I just I have trouble I have trouble seeing those guys as public companies then again like you know maybe they you know the real real just went public and I know it's not Sneakers but it is. It is sort of high price high price point items Consignment second hand and sell. You know maybe maybe that is a future but my bet would be on both companies acquisitions. Jason G: [46:25] We've I recorded your your bets and we'll do a recap show later I'll throw like one slight editorial and let you know can I think it's an interesting thing about some of these companies that has changed as a result of digital disruption if you were to launch a a really popular single item company 15 years ago, the marketing vehicles that would be available to you and it would be affordable to you would like, put significant parameters on how quickly you could grow so even there was a demand for 5 million people that wanted to buy your product, it might hate for five years for all five million of those people to find out about your product. And today that that same five million people will find out about your product one day after you want, and so what are the things that I feel like digital has done is. Artificially compressed the sale the initial sales. For your product info you know the mistake I think some people have made is you know you look at these rapid growth of all these companies and you go oh man we just project that out another five years, this is a huge business and what you don't realize is. Jason D: [47:49] You hate you hate you hate your car. Jason G: [47:51] Plateauing much fat. Jason D: [47:53] Yeah. Yeah you said that and much more articulate way than I was then I hit that I did earlier but yeah that was play I was attempting to make was already are these companies and weeks I think we've seen it with some are these companies going to hit a ceiling much sooner than they expected maybe investors inspect extract and. And so yeah I mean that's why I don't hear it as much but I you know I grew double overtime you know few years ago I would have laughed after a. Of time when. A Founder that was like 4 months in or 6 months in would talk to me about like it was confident about. LTV lifetime value and like modeling out there tax you know because. Because of that very point you just made like you're going to stir your hitting your target audience much quicker than in the past. Scot: [48:57] Coop's one area I wanted to see if you have any thoughts on this you've done a lot of good coverage around the food delivery companies you mentioned instacart so there's there's like a zillion of them and we saw a little bit of consolidation with someone acquired the one that square has always so that was caviar and they got acquired by. Jason D: [49:18] Doordash. Scot: [49:18] Yes yes and there was also controversy around tipping so to give us an update on what you're seeing there. Jason D: [49:26] I mean it's like the wild west right it's pretty crazy yeah we had also reported that Postmates had. In a filed they had a press release very early this year saying they had confidentially filed, paperwork with sec to go public and we are now in August, they have still not filed their official S1 paperwork a publicly that is very unusual for a company that will, that for companies that will eventually actually make it public until we we we have reported that every code that they had talks with some potential acquirers there just has to be Asian I mean no one you know of the private companies no one's making money doordash is viewed as sort of dick because they have all this money SoftBank bank backed company they have tons and tons of money that they are burning through, just to gain market share I mean there you know the rumors about them doing some deals with some of the The Big Dig sort of quick casual and or fast-casual and food chains were there essentially you know, they're take raid or they're cut is like. [50:47] Pasta zero or maybe it's zero in some cases and so this is me it's just not sustainable what I've been told and Uber went public, and had a good public outing and was a valued you know they were they were thinking they were going to be value to round 120 billion I haven't looked recently but I'm going to try to pull it up right now what are they 70 70 billion that they were going to wipe they would be wife we to do a deal, for one of the companies and so that you know that the problem in a couple problems you know, so I sold my back was they were going to eat there were neither acquired doordash or even GrubHub another public company, and but at 72 billion instead of 120 billion those deals at those companies market caps evaluations, become really really big percentage percentage of meaningful percentage of Uber's market cap. [51:52] And yeah I could I could keep going to ugly one other point just on like the the debate for Hoover on who do who do you acquire you know you choir doordash you kind of a quite you acquire the crazy show the crazy player in the market that's forcing anyone to just everyone in the mark this sort of lose their heads and burn cash for market share but but that that's her set you back on the economic side like that does not help your profitability of your business right maybe there's some synergies but like on the face of it no if you if you acquire instead GrubHub which is profitable business, you know you've you've gained some NASA volume GrubHub shuja New York with seamless Fusion some Big Moe died in Chicago GrubHub popular Hometown but then you still have the crazy, cash burner doordash out there and so. I'm really interested to see what all happened I think there will be consolidation I'm hoping we haven't announced any of food delivery CEOs for code Commerce yet but I'm very confident we'll have one of the heads of want to be Services there, and what I didn't talk about what is the Tipping scandal, which is essentially I drove one of you guys for a wants to summarize it but it but I'm happy to get my dots on it. Scot: [53:16] Yeah I think the the summary is the so they they all charge there's just got two buckets there's a there's a delivery fee and there's a tip and, what's happening is if you if you put a tip-in then none of the delivery fee they're essentially kind of well couple things to do is, it's legal to skim the tip so you can charge the worker you can you can take out yo sitting on there's all kinds of rules around us but something like two to 4% essentially covering your credit card fee and whatnot so that's one aspect to this I think all that stuff kind of unethical but whatever so it's legal and then and then the bigger thing was that effectively you know the as you tipped then the company was keeping more and more of the delivery fee so they were kind of saying it was like an order so the driver got you know kind of an order from the delivery fee in the tip not an ant. Jason D: [54:15] Right and I think this was surprising to an indoor dashes case and I don't think they were the only one surprising to both, the delivery people when they were in that you know I was tipped, $8 but I didn't get all that tip and then I think it was surprising to, customers and doordash initially sad like we believe in this model we believe our it's more steady income for our delivery people with this model and when they don't when they get you know this is better for them when they don't get a good tip and, and then the story kind of exploded again a few months later when I think of New York Times writer, a reporter asked her did delivery I get her first person then of what it was like and this came up again and then doordash recently gave in or has said they will change their model the problem with the whole space I mean I'm going to paint with a broad brush and I know there's some nuances with each service but generally like there is just I think most consumers just don't know. How much they're paying and where it's going and you know maybe for a lot of people they don't care that they're, you know the price is basically marked up twenty 30% from what they would pay in the store but the convenience is worth it but. [55:45] I really think there's room for an ethical player to Stand Out by just doing business really the right way the problem is I think the economics of the business at least with the current auditor site and how many services there are. Don't allow for that. Scot: [56:02] Yep yeah that's at some point prices will go up in the convenience store and consumer will know that they're they're paying extra for the stuff so what we have to just come to get to that normalization. Jason G: [56:13] Yeah the the tricky part is sometimes when at normal ization happens then the service isn't as appealing a consumer's rights. At a similar version is played out with instacart where they were Articuno originally they they had a low delivery fee but they were artificially raising the price of all the goods you paid so it was. Jason D: [56:32] Right right. Jason G: [56:33] And when customers found out about that that's out really oily and dishonest so you know they started passing through the items at the same price and tried to charge more for the delivery fee and found the customers weren't willing to pay that delivery piece of eight like 10 only do good in Market Square, they kept the delivery for you which meant the unit economics for the business don't working in a b c is paying for your delivery. Jason D: [56:59] What are you doing I'm just curious and it like do you think any of these bit whether it since the card or you know the the meal delivery companies. Do you think do you think any of them like go away like they did do you think we're in for a rude awakening where like. Some of the most sensual like one or two of them like literally collapse even. Jason G: [57:22] Why did consolidate in one of them does well for a while but in the long run I'll predict the day all the way in or we change and the reason I say that is. That they're essentially offering a service to grocery stores in the kids of instacart or restaurants in a case of the others, providing a customer experience at that Grocery Store retail you know restaurant wasn't interested in providing or didn't feel they could have adequately provide and, early on when it's not a big business it made total sense to do that as, that service becomes the dominant method of getting those those companies products. It becomes increasingly stupid for these companies to Outsource this right and I mean not the analogy to me. Jason D: [58:16] Oh I am now remind I've heard I've heard your tape before but I want. Jason G: [58:20] In the early days. Nobody built their own e-commerce I try like we're retailers and so what will pay this technology company in Silicon Valley to operate an e-commerce site for us. Jason D: [58:31] Or in Seattle. Jason G: [58:32] Yeah so that was either Amazon or company back in the day g s i n g s I became a very successful very fast runner made the owner of billionaire now owns the 76ers the. In the long run. All of the the surviving retailers had to find a way to unwind their deals with Amazon and GSI because it just became too important a part of the customer experience and when I. Jason D: [59:00] And those DSi deals man I've heard some stories. Jason G: [59:03] He was a great salesperson that the contracts were absurd. Jason D: [59:08] Team 10 15 year deals yet. Jason G: [59:10] Yeah it was amazing but in the case of restaurants there's a huge shift in consumer Behavior. 20% of all restaurant sales are now consumed off pram, the the deals they have with these marketplaces are unprofitable for the restaurants and so it's it literally at the, inhibit scales under the current economic model outputs all these restaurants out of business and side note all of these delivery companies are secretly opening, kitchens and commissaries to start delivering the universe similar to Amazon private label Marketplace so there's more pressure coming in the big successful restaurants that actually have products that consumers want. They're going to have to own their own delivery experience right in it and you talk to these got these huge companies are announcing oh we're going to partner with Uber Eats, and I I go like that that's crazy that's your the front door of your your restaurant. That you're now Outsourcing to someone that's going to disintermediate you from the customer it for a variety of reasons I don't think it's a sustainable model what's the. Jason D: [1:00:20] Yeah one one other thing I forgot to mention Little Couple interesting things one is you know the former CEO ousted CEO of uber Travis kalanick he's in the space I think here's a company one of his one or a division of one of his new company is called Cloud kitchens which is essentially these like dark, call dark kitchens or Bay City restaurants that only do delivery. The other thing is you know how Mazon hasn't come up in this conversation yet but in the end they you know I think they announced shutting down Amazon restaurants there, attempted delivery I don't think they're out of this I think like I would like, I think the two wires to me in this space at least in the US are, Uber and. Uber and Amazon and so I didn't you know will Amazon do any big Acquisitions right now with the current regulatory climate maybe not but. Maybe that's obvious to people that they're not out of it but I think some people when they saw them Amazon shutting down out of the restaurants. They were exiting but I think. I I would not be surprised whatsoever if they if they make a point in the space. Jason G: [1:01:46] No I I I think that's very possible with some decent that's going to be a great place to leave it because we've done it again we've completely wasted an hour of our listeners time. Jason D: [1:01:57] You got you guys did I didn't want a day like that. Jason G: [1:02:00] You know you are a total a willing participant, the but if listeners disagree and they want to continue the conversation as always you could jump on her Facebook page and leave some comments or hit us up on Twitter, as always in bed this was the show that that you know finally added value in your life what you should do is jump on iTunes give us that five star review and at the same time you can subscribe to Land of the Giants in here even more Jason Del Rey. Jason D: [1:02:31] Check can I just plug like you should really give it a shot we've been top 50 and top 30 for most of the last week on all of apple and I am open to all feedback, good and bad I'm on Twitter at Delray Delray Jason at recode.net we have an email address for Land of the Giants, and I just hijacked your ending there you go. Scot: [1:03:01] Jason thanks for joining us and congrats on the success of the podcast we look forward to hearing the rest of it. Jason D: [1:03:09] Thanks guys I'll see you at Code Commerce. Jason G: [1:03:11] Absolutely in until next time happy commercing.
This week I discuss the great Western Schism and the mystery of Roanoke. Recommendation: Fear by Bob Woodward
This episode explores the life of St. Vincent Ferrer, a Dominican preacher who helped end the Western Schism of the Church.
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Six hundred years ago Anti-Pope John XXIII called the Council of Constance. It was an ecumenical council recognized by the Roman Catholic Church and began in November 1414. The main purpose of the Council was to end the Western Schism. In 1414 three Popes ruled the Catholic Church, Anti-Popes John XXIII and Benedict XIII and Pope Gregory XII. There were two other issues the Council addressed as well. The heretics John Wyclif and Jan Hus and the Lithuania-Teutonic Knight conflict. The Council of Constance lasted three and a half years and completed two of its objectives, while only partially addressing the third. At the end of the Council a new Pope would stand at the Head of the Catholic Church and the heretics were repressed and burned! The Lithuania-Teutonic Knight conflict would take a little longer to settle. Join us today as we look at the Western Schism and the lead up to the Council of Constance. We'll also look at the Council's actions regarding the heretics and the Teutonic Knights. Please send any comments or suggestions to podcast@medievalarchives.com If you are enjoying the podcast please considering leaving a rating on iTunes. Rate the Medieval Archives Podcast now! Listen to the episode now In this episode we discuss: Western Schism Heretics and Jan Hus Poland-Lithuania-Tuetonic Knight dispute And more... Get your free audio book from Audible.com at: http://www.medievalarchives.com/AudioBook Download the MP3 and listen to it on your favorite MP3 player. Subscribe to the feed so you do not miss a single episode. iTunes | Stitcher Radio | Download MP3 | RSS Feed The music was provided by Tim Rayburn. It is available at Magnatune.com
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