Popes are controversial figures and some have been involved in questionable behavior including: orgies, selling the papacy, killing cardinals, and torture.
Here are the 10 worst popes of all time, you can read more about them here.
- Pope Stephen VI: had his predecessor exhumed, tried, de-fingered, and thrown to the river
- Pope Benedict IX: the Pope who sold the papacy
- Pope Sergius III: ordered the murder of another pope and started the "pornocracy"
- Pope John XII: raped female pilgrims and invoked pagan gods
- Pope Leo X: sold indulgences, killed cardinals
- Pope Alexander VI: nepotism, orgies and the rise of the Borgia family
- Pope Innocent IV: introduced torture on the Inquisition
- Pope Urban VI: complained he did not hear enough screaming when his Cardinals were tortured
- Pope John XV: split the church's finances among his relatives
- Pope Clement VII: his power-politicking with France, Spain and Germany got Rome sacked
