Alexander VI bought his way into the papacy and had a rollicking sex life. Alexander VI became pope in 1492 — but before then he was just Rodrigo Borgia, a member of the notorious Italian crime ...

According to E.R. Chamberlain’s 1986 book The Bad Popes, few ‘Vicars of Christ’ can hold a candle to Pope Stephen VI, grudge speaking. Pope Stephen VI had such bile against Pope Formosus ...