Do you believe there ever was a female pope?

Question

the book "Pope Joanne" is written as a fictional novel, but is pretty convincing. What do you think and why?

Answer 1

all the popes are female. who else would dress like liberace.

Answer 2

The principal proofs of the entirely mythical character of the popess are:

1. Not one contemporaneous historical source among the papal histories knows anything about her; also, no mention is made of her until the middle of the thirteenth century. Now it is incredible that the appearance of a "popess", if it was an historical fact, would be noticed by none of the numerous historians from the tenth to the thirteenth century.

2. In the history of the popes, there is no place where this legendary figure will fit in.

Between Leo IV and Benedict III, where Martinus Polonus places her, she cannot be inserted, because Leo IV died 17 July, 855, and immediately after his death Benedict III was elected by the clergy and people of Rome; but owing to the setting up of an antipope, in the person of the deposed Cardinal Anastasius, he was not consecrated until 29 September. Coins exist which bear both the image of Benedict III and of Emperor Lothair, who died 28 September, 855; therefore Benedict must have been recognized as pope before the last-mentioned date. On 7 October, 855, Benedict III issued a charter for the Abbey of Corvey. Hincmar, Archbishop of Reims, informed Nicholas I that a messenger whom he had sent to Leo IV learned on his way of the death of this pope, and therefore handed his petition to Benedict III, who decided it (Hincmar, ep. xl in P.L., CXXXVI, 85). All these witnesses prove the correctness of the dates given in the lives of Leo IV and Benedict III, and there was no interregnum between these two popes, so that at this place there is no room for the alleged popess.

Further, is is even less probable that a popess could be inserted in the list of popes about 1100, between Victor III (1087) and Urban II (1088-99) or Paschal II (1099-1110), as is suggested by the chronicle of Jean de Mailly.

From "New Advent"

Answer 3

Pope Joan is the call of a mythical woman pope, (additionally l. a. Papessa), who supposedly reigned for below 3 years in the 850s, between the papacies of Leo IV and Benedict III, and is ordinary mostly from a legend that circulated in the midsection a while. Pope Joan is acknowledged via maximum contemporary historians and non secular pupils as fictitious, probable originating as an anti-papal satire.

Answer 4

Pope Innocent (Joanne) was a female...
most knowledge about her was wiped from the record books...total embarrasment to the Roman Catholic Church
After the Catholic Church made this discovery...(I believe she had a child).... it was decreed that all church officials be examined, to check their gender

Answer 5

Yes there was. When it was found out she was killed. Then they built the coronation throne that looks like an outhouse toilet seat so they can feel for male genitals. How would you like to have that job, sticking your hand up an 80 year old mans robe, and grabbing holt of a wrinkely old scrotum thats hanging down about a foot and a half.

Answer 6

Not only a female pope but lots of effeminate popes.

Answer 7

The first pope was Mary Magdalene.

Answer 8

There was never a female pope. Why? Women are viewed as inferior.

Answer 9

A woman cannot be Pope. Being Pope is for cross-dressing men who like living in a big house with other cross-dressers. They don't even like women, they just like dressing like them.

Answer 10

There has never been a female pope. Woman are submissive, not leaders in the Catholic church.

Answer 11

Google it. Go to Wikipedia. There's one hell of a lot of info on her.

She did exist and was Pope.