During Pope Gregory IX’s term, he declared that cats were associated with devil worship, resulting in their mass extermination.
Ironically, it is believed that this large-scale expunging of felines helped to spread the Bubonic Plague, which ravaged Europe in the 1300s and killed over a hundred million people. No cats meant the rat population (which carried the plague) ran wild.
All of the popes have never even cracked open the bible once. Misinterpretation of your own religion + power + 1300s intelligence = horrible mishap inevitably. reply
