[Oztrich Boy]

The effect of the Cadever Synod backfired on Stephen. Formosus' supporters, appalled by Stephen's macabre trial, rebelled. He was deposed, imprisoned and strangled to death."

If the Cadever Synod failed at the box office, why did Sergius III do a remake nine years later? (This time Formosus got chucked in the Tiber at the end, and still they recovered the body.)

[x5452]

I am shocked at the notion of digging up popes for trial, and the notion that anyone who did this was still pope and capable of speaking ex cathedra makes me laugh at the possibility of union between the Orthodox and Rome.

Rome should have distanced itself from this years ago.