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Not an easy question...also depending on whether you mean worst in executing his office or worst in personal life, living up to the standards of the pope. The most famous example of the latter is easy: Pope Alexander VI. Originally Cardinal Borgia from Spain, Pope Alexander's claims to fame were taking over much of Italy by force with the help of his son Cesare (yes, his son), a racy relationship with his daughter Lucrezia (some say her son was his), and his affinity for throwing large parties, bordering on orgies, that usually culminated with little naked boys jumping out of large cakes. The Renaissance Popes in general were a group of popes who did not live up to the standards of their office, and many papal elections were rigged for rich, powerful families of that time. The abuses of these papacies are some of the reasons for the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, when Christendom was split.
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∙ 13y agoThere have been several popes who were less than 'Holy Fathers." Perhaps the worst:
"Pope Benedict IX (1032-1044, again in 1045 and finally 1047-1048) was said to have conducted a very dissolute life during his papacy. He was accused by Bishop Benno of Piacenza of "many vile adulteries and murders." Pope Victor III referred in his third book of Dialogues to "his rapes, murders and other unspeakable acts. His life as a Pope so vile, so foul, so execrable, that I shudder to think of it." It prompted St. Peter Damian to write an extended treatise against sex in general, and homosexuality in particular. In his Liber Gomorrhianus, St. Peter Damian recorded that Benedict "feasted on immorality" and that he was "a demon from hell in the disguise of a priest", accusing Benedict IX of routine sodomy and bestiality and sponsoring orgies. In May 1045, Benedict IX resigned his office to pursue marriage, selling his office for 1,500 pounds of gold to his godfather, the pious priest John Gratian, who named himself Pope Gregory VI."
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∙ 9y agoThe most evil Pope is believed to have been Pope Alexander VI who was selfish and very greedy. A close second would be Pope Benedict IX, one of the most immoral and corrupt persons to sit in the Chair of Peter.
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