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Oct 23, 2026
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
But he nevertheless acknowledges that before him, you see people who look and sound a lot like popes.
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
And he gives several examples, Pope Victor in 189 to 199, Pope Callistus in 218 to 223, Pope Stephen, that they're getting involved in these big disputes and claiming large amounts of authority for themselves.
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
that they clearly think that they have the authority to decide disputes.
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
They get into church fights, and the Roman side wins all of these fights.
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
But he nevertheless acknowledges that before him, you see people who look and sound a lot like popes.
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
And he gives several examples, Pope Victor in 189 to 199, Pope Callistus in 218 to 223, Pope Stephen, that they're getting involved in these big disputes and claiming large amounts of authority for themselves.
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
that they clearly think that they have the authority to decide disputes.
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
They get into church fights, and the Roman side wins all of these fights.
Matt SperrazzaHOST
Historical critic.
Sam KachubaHOST
We've got St. Calixtus I, who was a slave in Rome and trusted by his master with a bank serving fellow Christians and Jews, but the funds were lost reportedly through mismanagement or fraud.
Sam KachubaHOST
He fled, was caught, and was sentenced to hard labor on the treadmill, which is not our understanding of the treadmill.
Sam KachubaHOST
Yeah, I didn't think so.
Pawel GlowackiGUEST
So east and west.
Pawel GlowackiGUEST
Oh, and the same Pope Callixtus-
William AlbrechtHOST
Yeah
Pawel GlowackiGUEST
... done at the beginning of the first century in the work on the modesty.
Luke Mary FletcherHOST
And no matter what that price is, we should hold to it.
Luke Mary FletcherHOST
Carrying over to the saint we celebrate today, Pope Callistus, probably never heard of him.
Luke Mary FletcherHOST
But he has the catacombs in Italy named after him.
Luke Mary FletcherHOST
So if you've been to Italy, you might have heard the name.
Luke Mary FletcherHOST
And the biggest one that he was preaching against is this concept.
Luke Mary FletcherHOST
There was a concept of some bishops and priests promoting that this ability to forgive sins, where you bind on earth and bind in heaven, loose on earth, loose in heaven, was only given to Peter and not passed down.
Luke Mary FletcherHOST
And so Pope Callistus obviously defended that to the point where one of his priests were defending it was murdered.
Luke Mary FletcherHOST
He got his body out of the Thames and actually buried him.
Richard BoyleHOST
Welcome to the Traditional Catholic Daily Devotional for Wednesday, October 14th, 2026.
Richard BoyleHOST
It's the Feast of St. Callistus, third class for the color of red.
Richard BoyleHOST
In this episode, the meditation, the mission of guardian angels.
Richard BoyleHOST
Today's news from the church, tomorrow the Antichrist, when theology sheds light on geopolitics.
Richard BoyleHOST
but first the collect of today's mass.
Richard BoyleHOST
Oh God, who beholds how we fail in our weakness, mercifully restore us to thy love through the examples of thy saints.
Richard BoyleHOST
We've talked about St. Callistus a few times before, and there's not a lot known about some of these early popes, so let's look at another saint that we know a little bit more of, but who is still relatively unknown.
Richard BoyleHOST
That's St. Fortunatus of Todi, one of those early Italian bishops whose reputation survived for 1,500 years, thanks in large part to some remarkable stories preserved by Pope St. Gregory the Great.
Joe KruppHOST
So I told you today's saint, St. Callistus or Callixtus, it depends if you're looking at Latin or English.
Joe KruppHOST
He is a really interesting guy.
Joe KruppHOST
What we know about him came from a guy who really hated him.
Joe KruppHOST
What a name, huh? And he didn't like this at all.
Joe KruppHOST
He said, the church is for people who are good.
Joe KruppHOST
And Callistus was like, no, no, no. It's for people who are fighting to be good.
Joe KruppHOST
Now, this fight meant that Hippolytus gathered a whole bunch of people and said, he's not the pope.
Joe KruppHOST
He should be the pope.
Joe McClaneHOST
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and now your saint of the day.
Mike KoenigerHOST
[gentle music] Pope Saint Callixtus I. Pray for us.
Mike KoenigerHOST
Callixtus was born in Rome in the second century and may have been a slave before eventually entering the clergy.
Mike KoenigerHOST
He succeeded Pope Saint Zephyrinus around the year of our Lord, two eighteen, during the reign of the infamous Heliogabalus.
Mike KoenigerHOST
It is likely during one of these outbursts that Callixtus met his martyrdom after a reign of about five years.
Mike KoenigerHOST
For more about the saints and seasons of the Catholic Church, visit thestationofthecross.com/saintsandseasons.
Mike KoenigerHOST
Pope Saint Callixtus I, pray for us.
Joe McClaneHOST
And now your headline news.
Dwight CampbellHOST
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
Dwight CampbellHOST
Well, today we celebrate the feast day of St. Callistus I, who was martyred in about 221, I think it was.
Dwight CampbellHOST
And he had battled a couple of heresies, but he was criticized by two early church writers, Hippolytus and and Tertullian for his laxity, because during the Roman persecutions, when people would deny the faith, other individuals, some individuals in the church, prominent ones, thought that these people shouldn't be forgiven, because out of weakness, they denied Christ.
Dwight CampbellHOST
And Pope St. Callistus said, no, we'll forgive them if they're really repentant.
Dwight CampbellHOST
And then when the cock crowed the second time, he wept.
Dwight CampbellHOST
And early Christian writers say that St. Peter was so heartbroken and distraught for the rest of his life, he wept every day because of his triple denial of Christ and that there were furrows in his cheeks from the many tears shed.
Dwight CampbellHOST
So if the first head of the church denied Christ three times, well, I think Pope Callistus I was correct in saying that if people out of weakness, out of fear, deny Jesus, well, that they could be forgiven.
Dwight CampbellHOST
Peter was forgiven.
speaker_1NARRATOR
From EWTN, the Global Catholic Network, this is EWTN News Nightly.
Veronica DudoHOST
Thank you for being with us on the feast day of St. Callistus I, Pope and Martyr.
Veronica DudoHOST
We begin tonight in Rome, where we just learned that Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass today in a special room set up for the occasion.
Veronica DudoHOST
We also learned more about the pontiff's condition.
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