Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Pope Joan

Peter Stanford's work, The She-Pope, is apparently being turned into a film. The basic gist of the work is that one woman managed to become pope, only to give birth to a child in public (thereby betraying her secret). Allegedly this all took place in the late 9th century. The story should be taken with a whole shaker of salt, for a variety of reasons. Nevertheless, it is an interesting story with more and better factual support than, say, the alleged bodily assumption of Mary.

(Link to article: CAUTION - web page features immodest women, and story is a little explicit about how the Church allegedly avoids another Pope Joan. Thus, this link is neither for those with lust problems, or for children.)

2 comments:

Pilgrimsarbour said...

I had no idea Pope Joan was Vulcan...

John Bugay said...

more and better factual support than, say, the alleged bodily assumption of Mary.

LOL, funniest thing I've heard all week! (Still only Tuesday though).