Scandalous Popes of the Middle Ages | Sam O'Nella | History Teacher Reacts

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  • Many Popes were known to "bend" the rules during the Middle Ages. You won't believe how far some of them went though! Mr. Terry and Sam O'Nella explain!
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Komentáře • 209

  • @MrTerry
    @MrTerry  Před rokem +195

    Do you know of any other crazy Pope stories? Post them below!

    • @JosephWeberYT
      @JosephWeberYT Před rokem

      There is a video by the Infographics Show about 10 evil popes

    • @ValerietheLovelyDeadlyItalian
      @ValerietheLovelyDeadlyItalian Před rokem +25

      "Pope fights" by OSP!!

    • @speedypichu6833
      @speedypichu6833 Před rokem +4

      @@ValerietheLovelyDeadlyItalian Yes, that’s great

    • @AbhNormal
      @AbhNormal Před rokem +1

      Ooh ooh, I've got one! Benedict IX, the only pope who "sold" the papacy, who ruled as pope three separate times in a short fifteen-year period. He was known in Rome as a complete degenerate, with his papacy filled to the brim with murders, rapes and other atrocities.

    • @SylviaRustyFae
      @SylviaRustyFae Před rokem +6

      @@ValerietheLovelyDeadlyItalian Legit was gonna say this too, pope fights and pope fights 2! (Just checked, Blue (of OSP) has mafe at least four Pope Fights vids; do all of them!)

  • @boopdino8053
    @boopdino8053 Před rokem +756

    I just love how Mr.Terry slowly but surely descended into more and more pain and desperation as the things the popes did got more absurd and bizarre

    • @mcmahon31619
      @mcmahon31619 Před rokem +52

      Humans are weird. So lots of weird things happened in history

    • @boopdino8053
      @boopdino8053 Před rokem +41

      @@mcmahon31619
      Absolutely! History in general is just a bigger representation of human nature

    • @kingkaydengaming2786
      @kingkaydengaming2786 Před rokem +12

      @@boopdino8053 real life is a parody of real life i swear

    • @Adderall019
      @Adderall019 Před rokem +3

      @@kingkaydengaming2786 are you sure ?

  • @nonprogrediestregredi1711
    @nonprogrediestregredi1711 Před rokem +398

    "See the hat?! That means I'm pope; P O O P, pope!"
    I love it when Sam sneaks those jokes in under the radar!

    • @Merennulli
      @Merennulli Před rokem +25

      Historically, spelling was not consistent like it is now. Knowing his work, I can't help but wonder if he's pulling that from some official document somewhere.

    • @Magnustopheles
      @Magnustopheles Před rokem +9

      @@Merennulli Maybe, but pope is the English word for the position anyway

    • @bubbyberry
      @bubbyberry Před rokem +12

      @@Merennulli "Knowing his work, I can't help but wonder if he's pulling that from some official document somewhere." I'm sorry Sam is my favourite youtuber but he is NOT a big researcher, thats like what he's known for, Sam basically is a very funny wikipedia article.

    • @Merennulli
      @Merennulli Před rokem +13

      @@bubbyberry He does do a degree of research, but that wasn't what I was getting at. A lot of his work amounts to "I found this funny thing, now I'm going to put it in a video somewhere". This fits with that.

  • @hakairyu1
    @hakairyu1 Před rokem +598

    It is important to note here that the Catholic Church introduced the strict celibacy requirement around 1000 AD, because of the really adulterous Popes. Before that they usually just chose already married men to become priests, which is what the Orthodox still do.

    • @geraldgrenier8132
      @geraldgrenier8132 Před rokem

      yes but that wasn't why the "reform" was but in. it was to prevent church land from being inherited by a priest's children.

    • @breveth
      @breveth Před rokem +77

      But that celibacy requirement was after ignored even after introduction. Because remember the pope wasn't just above the law, it was the law.

    • @TheAngryXenite
      @TheAngryXenite Před rokem +70

      If memory serves the church introduced the celibacy requirement to attempt to break the urge for bishops, popes, etc to create dynasties and engrain nepotism into the church structure.

    • @stucknousernames
      @stucknousernames Před rokem

      Now they choose child predators instead of married people.

    • @bloodangel19
      @bloodangel19 Před rokem +9

      @@TheAngryXenite but nepotism still ran rampant,and plenty of priests still belonged to noble families which they would of course favor

  • @tezla6332
    @tezla6332 Před rokem +86

    "He's been on hiatus for too long" And thusly he returned... Terry, you are a magic man.

  • @ThatLonelyMeatball
    @ThatLonelyMeatball Před rokem +248

    thought the sam o’nella reactions were gone, what a delight surprise

  • @Spongebrain97
    @Spongebrain97 Před rokem +169

    Im surprised that Pope Alexander VI wasn't on here due to him fathering many children amongst mistresses and he was very politically corrupt and still has stakes in his family. Infamously he tried to usually his papal power to aid the military of his son Cesare Borgia

    • @moblinmajorgeneral
      @moblinmajorgeneral Před rokem +14

      Roderigo Borgia was during the Renaissance

    • @Magnustopheles
      @Magnustopheles Před rokem +18

      Alexander VI is here though

    • @senorsiro3748
      @senorsiro3748 Před rokem +18

      He is the 3rd and last pope in the vid

    • @Thollis1987
      @Thollis1987 Před 7 měsíci

      Cesare Borgia? The same dude who posed as Jesus Christ portrait?😮

  • @jamesoswald3473
    @jamesoswald3473 Před rokem +122

    Mr. Terry: This stuff isn't appropriate for school.
    Next day.
    Mr. Terry: Alright my children, schools done for the day. Wanna join me in some really fun after school activities?
    Kids: Hell yeah! What is it Mr. Terry?
    Mr. Terry: *SCANDALOUS POPE STORIES*

  • @SuperDecimator
    @SuperDecimator Před rokem +33

    I had always thought the trial of the corpse was by someone who realized no precedent had been set, so he tried a corpse in order to get the practice banned.

    • @SuperDecimator
      @SuperDecimator Před rokem +2

      But I guess we'll settle for the petty version

    • @candyman_315
      @candyman_315 Před rokem +2

      so same deal as the rat trials, or animal trials in general?

  • @DanParker89
    @DanParker89 Před rokem +78

    Catholic here: Already knew these stories *before* converting lol. These stories are the tip of a much larger iceberg 🤦‍♂️

    • @tommerker8063
      @tommerker8063 Před rokem

      and are you happy you joint a pedophile club?

    • @TygR3
      @TygR3 Před rokem +16

      Bruh, pope Formosas wasn't even safe in death 💀

    • @garrettb2057
      @garrettb2057 Před rokem +6

      One of the reasons why I'm not associated with Christianity anymore lol

    • @brittoncain5090
      @brittoncain5090 Před rokem +5

      @@garrettb2057 Sad to hear that

  • @CommissarMitch
    @CommissarMitch Před rokem +81

    Overly Sarcastic Productions did a series on all the Papal shenanigans. Highly recommending it.

  • @DanGamingFan2846
    @DanGamingFan2846 Před rokem +25

    The first example he gives still sounds so insane to me.

  • @jamesputterlik225
    @jamesputterlik225 Před rokem +7

    Ah yes, the cadaver synod. The corpse of Formosis was pretty much moved about to and from his venerated interment site pretty much according to the inclinations of whichever pope happened to be in power at the time.

    • @HolyknightVader999
      @HolyknightVader999 Před rokem +1

      Also, the corpse had miraculous powers and apparently healed sick people that touched it. LOL.

  • @TamagoSenshi
    @TamagoSenshi Před rokem +13

    Alexander VI was Rodrigo Borgia, which I guess was left out on purpose, considering - ya know - the other things he did

  • @shatterednova_
    @shatterednova_ Před rokem +14

    Holy shit you brought him back.

  • @UnbornHeretic
    @UnbornHeretic Před rokem +6

    Pope Benedict IX was either 12 or 20 when he first became pope. The first of three time he was pope mind you in a 16 year period. He was also very hedonistic.

  • @killianmiller6107
    @killianmiller6107 Před rokem +14

    It’s interesting that the Catholic Church has undergone reform multiple times outside of just the Protestant Reformation. One notable example is when Pope Gregory VII reformed the church during the investiture controversy. From a Catholic point of view, the problem with Luther wasn’t that he called for reform (which was needed), it was that he went into schism with the Church.

    • @HolyknightVader999
      @HolyknightVader999 Před rokem +5

      If Luther remained loyal to the Church like Saints Francis and Ignatius, he'd be a saint by now. Maybe even a doctor of the Church like Catherine of Siena.

    • @thewanderingmistnull2451
      @thewanderingmistnull2451 Před 7 měsíci

      Luther was mad about the split too. He wanted internal reformation. As far as he was concerned, he was still Catholic.

  • @bloodstoneore4630
    @bloodstoneore4630 Před rokem +9

    A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

  • @Dr.HooWho
    @Dr.HooWho Před rokem +5

    When you get a large amount of power it makes you think you can do whatever you want since you can just prevent people from stopping you

  • @SylviaRustyFae
    @SylviaRustyFae Před rokem +4

    This is not a drill! Theres a new sam onella vid!! Its only kinda sorta history adjacent tho, itd about taxonomy

  • @SylviaRustyFae
    @SylviaRustyFae Před rokem +7

    Came for your CGP Grey reacts, subscribed for your Sam O'Nella reacts.

  • @donm6578
    @donm6578 Před rokem +9

    I could have sworn I saw this on your channel, I've definitely watched it on Sam's channel before. Always down for some SOA

  • @PowerLord83
    @PowerLord83 Před rokem +13

    Can you do a collab of some kind with Vlogging Through History? I started watching you first, then him and enjoy both of your reaction, would be cool to see a history teacher collab

  • @AKAZA-kq8jd
    @AKAZA-kq8jd Před rokem +7

    Well this is also debatable but John was thrown out a window.

    • @TygR3
      @TygR3 Před rokem

      Out the window or thru the window?

  • @bus6292
    @bus6292 Před rokem +5

    If standing on a balcony and pointing and laughing while horses boink is wrong, I don't want to be right. I'm not even religious but I would vote for that pope.

  • @atmen1489
    @atmen1489 Před rokem

    I can't believe you finally came back to CZcams after like a 2-year hiatus it was crazy

  • @0Centz0
    @0Centz0 Před rokem +3

    OH MY GOD, SAM MADE A NEW VIDEO HE IS BACK

  • @ZootedZebruh
    @ZootedZebruh Před rokem +19

    Hi, I'm a Roman Catholic, and as per your comment about Catholics not being offended when speaking on the bad spots of the churches history, while I wish it were true, it is not and it is in fact a huge problem because it is all anyone out of the faith mentions or knows about our church. I personally am not offended by this specific topic, Popes aren't worshipped, Popes aren't saints. (fun fact, there have only been around 6-7 popes who have been canonized as saints since the year 1000.) With that fact being said, I don't mind there being light shined on those who weren't the best, but it does make us look bad.

    • @thewanderingmistnull2451
      @thewanderingmistnull2451 Před 7 měsíci +1

      He probably meant that Catholics don't get nearly as worked up as Protestants do.

  • @mutecryptid
    @mutecryptid Před rokem

    I have been waiting for more Sam omg

  • @kingcrimsonlover911
    @kingcrimsonlover911 Před rokem +3

    HES BACK

  • @Hahaha-lr4ob
    @Hahaha-lr4ob Před rokem

    I love these videos!

  • @Chek38511
    @Chek38511 Před rokem +5

    React to Pope Fights from Overly Sarcastic Productions! Or any of their history videos. Blue's great.

  • @ValerietheLovelyDeadlyItalian

    I reaaalllly hope he starts making some new videos soon

  • @nothingishere4091
    @nothingishere4091 Před rokem +2

    Sam O'Nella is back after 2 years

  • @wretchedegg2208
    @wretchedegg2208 Před rokem +2

    About the first story with the corpse you should check out the video "Saeculum Obscurum: Dead Popes and Holy Wars in the Dark Age of the Catholic Church" by Into the Shadows.

  • @WeedCop
    @WeedCop Před rokem +1

    LIke the cook at denny's when i held him at gunpoint

  • @Yacovo
    @Yacovo Před rokem

    Thanks for the video

    • @MrTerry
      @MrTerry  Před rokem

      You are very welcome. Thanks for watching!

  • @RamenHutt
    @RamenHutt Před rokem +1

    Haha i just caught the line "Do you see the hat? It means I'm pope, POOP pope."

  • @Tyboose
    @Tyboose Před rokem +1

    3:25 « p o o p pope » yeah, that seems about right!

  • @artsysabs
    @artsysabs Před rokem +9

    I'm also surprised you've still got more Sam to go through!
    We need more Sam!!! Maybe we gotta go dumpster diving to find him again

  • @-sillykitty-
    @-sillykitty- Před 5 měsíci

    i imagine that mr terry would enter his class in a george washington costume singing his whole life until death

  • @Asahamana
    @Asahamana Před rokem +1

    Aah yes The famous pasta fazool Im a fool line 😄
    I love that.

  • @alexiatorrez7680
    @alexiatorrez7680 Před rokem +17

    I’m Catholic, and don’t care 🤷‍♀️. This video is funny and informative 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

    • @tommerker8063
      @tommerker8063 Před rokem +1

      why are you on the internet if you are catholic (or christian at all)? do you have no shame?

    • @flori5296
      @flori5296 Před rokem +19

      @@tommerker8063 what does beeing christian have to do with beeing on the internet?

    • @tommerker8063
      @tommerker8063 Před rokem

      @@flori5296 you guys castrated and drove alan turing to suicide, ergo it's compeltely a moral to profit from anything computer related. you are like a nazi profiting from jews

    • @TheSucram729
      @TheSucram729 Před rokem +8

      @@flori5296 probably some really old conservative dude who thinks the internet is sinful

  • @crystalsou1s
    @crystalsou1s Před rokem +1

    He posted this video and Sam came back

  • @CallMeDaioc
    @CallMeDaioc Před rokem +1

    he's back

  • @George.washing
    @George.washing Před rokem +1

    Sam O' Nella: *sleeps for another 2 weeks* *wakes up* *makes vid in 5 min* wow! I totally didn't take a 2-year nap!

  • @hobodarkness7696
    @hobodarkness7696 Před rokem

    Hey Mr. Terry have you ever seen the youtube channel bloodletters and badmen? Its a channel about mobsters

  • @bradenr867
    @bradenr867 Před rokem +2

    0:53
    They’re really aren’t
    My friend is Catholic and I ask him questions like “how many cracker do you have to eat before it’s a whole Jesus”
    And the run of the mill priest jokes and he laughs and even adds to them sometimes

  • @endersdragon34
    @endersdragon34 Před 5 měsíci

    Something tells me you won't be showing this in a classroom... unless you really really really want to get fired lol

  • @Galistarwater
    @Galistarwater Před rokem +1

    I think Oversimplified mentioned something like this in his Bucket War video.

  • @thelastchance5892
    @thelastchance5892 Před rokem

    Really enjoyed the video. Could you check out gettysburg by iced earth. It would be very interesting to get your thoughts on it

  • @redstarlegion7009
    @redstarlegion7009 Před 9 měsíci

    Pope Alexander VI, AKA Rodrigo Borgia AKA the Templar Grand Master for two Assassin's Creed games.

  • @MrMG-il5hv
    @MrMG-il5hv Před 9 měsíci

    I just realized that there is a possibility that some of my ancestors could have originated from the banquet a chestnut (because I doubt they used protection), now the likelihood of that is not high because I am mostly Irish and Italian in origin, but the fact that it’s even a possibility kind of scares me.

  • @PresentingGreatMusic
    @PresentingGreatMusic Před rokem +1

    Love some more Sam O Nella

  • @blackoutlol2857
    @blackoutlol2857 Před rokem

    Sam made another video for the first time in 3 years let’s go!

  • @hansom3jutsu
    @hansom3jutsu Před rokem

    What a pleasant surprise it’s been too long

  • @hoothoot7122
    @hoothoot7122 Před rokem +2

    Do your students know you have a channel? Do they watch you cause that’d be epic

    • @MrTerry
      @MrTerry  Před rokem +1

      Some know. I don’t really talk about it though.

  • @spencersholden
    @spencersholden Před rokem +2

    Watch Pope Fights from Overly Sarcastic Productions for more pope tomfoolery. They are much more family friendly.

  • @noblereflex8332
    @noblereflex8332 Před rokem

    2:45 even in death i am still served (court summons)

  • @raddishforthenight
    @raddishforthenight Před rokem

    i think you summoned him with this video lmao

  • @SapthaRishiCP
    @SapthaRishiCP Před rokem

    You should also react to 1848 revolutions by epic history tv.

  • @JamesCQuint
    @JamesCQuint Před 6 měsíci

    As someone who went to Catholic School my whole life, my arsenal of Catholic jokes would shock, disgust, and terrify you. Kinda hard not to roll with the punches when there's 2,000 years worth of receipts that the world has held on to

  • @Demonslayre
    @Demonslayre Před rokem

    Want more pope shenanigans? Check out OSP's Pope Fights. Its.... its great

  • @basicjohn9157
    @basicjohn9157 Před rokem +1

    SAM IS BACK

  • @LTMM_
    @LTMM_ Před rokem

    That Fermosos trail story is still a mindfuck.

    • @HolyknightVader999
      @HolyknightVader999 Před rokem

      Best part about it was that the corpse was miraculous and healed sick people who touched it.

  • @jamesputterlik225
    @jamesputterlik225 Před rokem

    You should check out a series called WTF 101. It's kinda like The Magic School Bus meets Rick and Morty.

  • @capitainemmhenri1299
    @capitainemmhenri1299 Před rokem +2

    For the first few seconds of seeing the thumbnail I was hoping there was a new Sam vid :(

  • @Birb_of_Judge
    @Birb_of_Judge Před rokem

    Funny he's back yk

  • @mcmahon31619
    @mcmahon31619 Před rokem +1

    Sam O'nella COME BACCCKKKKK. The internet needs you

    • @mcmahon31619
      @mcmahon31619 Před rokem +3

      Update : 2 weeks later: Sam did come back

  • @kempeioniiko7916
    @kempeioniiko7916 Před rokem

    You should watch Unknown5, however their videos are long and are more serious but they're great videos

  • @walnzell9328
    @walnzell9328 Před rokem +1

    The Second Catholic Reformation under Pope Francis is pretty neat.
    Now we've got a pope with the power of God and anime on his side. And he's been entertained by a circus troupe while a band plays Megalovania.
    Oh and also he's addressing the cultural genocide perpetuated against Native Americans by Catholic schools.

  • @MySerpentine
    @MySerpentine Před rokem

    The Antipopes were a whole weird thing.

  • @Danny_Ko
    @Danny_Ko Před rokem

    I love your shirt, specifically because Sam brings up toilet paper orientation

    • @MrTerry
      @MrTerry  Před rokem

      Just make sure you're on the right side of history with your TP

  • @hobodarkness7696
    @hobodarkness7696 Před rokem

    Ayyyyyyy my prayers have been herd XD

  • @Paltse
    @Paltse Před 10 měsíci

    Hwell, The Pope to this day is the monarch of Vatican City State.

  • @d34d10ck
    @d34d10ck Před 11 měsíci

    You are absolutely right. Knowledge isn't school appropriate.

  • @seanbarker4610
    @seanbarker4610 Před rokem +1

    The Borgias used Macchievellian ideas to keep power!

    • @random.reader
      @random.reader Před rokem +2

      More precisely, it was the actions of the Borgias and other popes and rulers of the period that inspired much of Machiavelli's political writing.

    • @MrTerry
      @MrTerry  Před rokem +1

      Yep. “The Prince” was basically about Cesare Borgia

  • @reygonzalez4719
    @reygonzalez4719 Před rokem +3

    I wish Sam uploaded more

    • @BJGvideos
      @BJGvideos Před rokem

      Well, lookie here he uploaded!

  • @hobodarkness7696
    @hobodarkness7696 Před rokem

    Is there a video on sammys plant diseases yet?

  • @magiv4205
    @magiv4205 Před rokem

    THE SPEED WITH WHICH I CLICKED ON THIS VIDEO

  • @linnonline
    @linnonline Před rokem

    SAMS BACK

  • @tiberiusbrain
    @tiberiusbrain Před rokem +1

    For a split second i thought there was a new samonella video..... 😭

  • @efestus5
    @efestus5 Před rokem

    YOU MADE IT!!! HE IS BAAAAAAAAACK!!!!

  • @r.javanainen8947
    @r.javanainen8947 Před 9 měsíci

    "I'm the pope! P-O-O-P pope!"

  • @kitsunekaze93
    @kitsunekaze93 Před 8 měsíci

    "not school appropriate" none of this would be inappropriate for school ( at least not for students 13 and up )

  • @Glory_to_Arstotzka
    @Glory_to_Arstotzka Před rokem +1

    Sam is back yeeeaaaahhh

  • @sauceman2885
    @sauceman2885 Před rokem +1

    Honestly as a catholic I think this vid is hilarious. Stuff is comical

  • @eternalmiasma5586
    @eternalmiasma5586 Před rokem

    I miss Sam so much

  • @octapusxft
    @octapusxft Před 7 měsíci

    We are at a time where what is appropriate to be taught in schools has become a real issue

  • @alessiobenvenuto5159
    @alessiobenvenuto5159 Před rokem

    Pasta e Fasul isn't even Italian, it's Neapolitan 😂
    Almost spot on tho!

  • @cillianennis9921
    @cillianennis9921 Před rokem

    one person who came before martin luther was jan hus the j is a y. he was a bohemian man & started the hussite protestant church before it was cool. he still lives on to this day. his church not him the catholics burnt him at the stake. Sam should do a video on it one day.

    • @thelearningmethod
      @thelearningmethod Před 11 měsíci

      Lol yeah. Huss: I was Protestant before it was kool.

  • @Danielle-mg5lf
    @Danielle-mg5lf Před 9 měsíci

    No that’s indulgences😊

  • @kathrynsue1986
    @kathrynsue1986 Před rokem +1

    im catholic and well aware that the church is not headed by perfect people

  • @princealigorna7468
    @princealigorna7468 Před 9 měsíci

    Wasn't one of the Borgias a Pope?

  • @memecliparchives2254
    @memecliparchives2254 Před rokem

    Yep, this is a video where....how should we put this?

  • @alexbyrne8909
    @alexbyrne8909 Před rokem

    He is holy and loves ravioli it's the pope

  • @DarkfoxTamamo_21
    @DarkfoxTamamo_21 Před rokem

    anyone remember the Aristocrats?

  • @FatedGamer
    @FatedGamer Před rokem +2

    I sure am glad that there was a reformation and church leaders today don't live double lives or act two faced with their morals and preaching......waittttt

  • @SootyPhoenix
    @SootyPhoenix Před 2 měsíci

    Perhaps they suffered from scandaliosis?

  • @vendasch666
    @vendasch666 Před rokem

    Those before Martin Luther - John Wycliffe and Jan Hus.

    • @thelearningmethod
      @thelearningmethod Před 11 měsíci

      If you are asking if these Popes mentioned in the video came before Luther, Wickliffe and Huss; the first three were before L, W, and H; the last one, Alezander VI, came between W with H and L. Hope it helps.

    • @vendasch666
      @vendasch666 Před 11 měsíci

      @@thelearningmethod no I'm not asking about the popes. I'm telling about two important figures who were calling for reformation of church. I don't care about the popes. As you see in the original video - popes were rarely saint men.