It Looks Like There Was a Pope Joan in the Middle Ages

One of the researchers working on this project said he went into it with great skepticism about a female pope. Since then he has become open to this possibility.

There is evidence of a female Pope. There will be, of course, deniers.

Apparently, it has been long running legend there was a Pope Joan around the 800's. Records show a name but it is not clear if it is the name of a man or woman.

Recently a coin was uncovered which has the mark of the civilian leader on one side and Pope Joan on the other. The Pope of record at the time was "Johannes". It is not completely clear from the name which gender this "Johannes" refers to.


A female pope would throw the male-run Catholic church into turmoil. The faith's legend is that because Jesus had only males associates that is the only acceptable gender to run the church today. That there was a Jesus and that he had only male colleagues both are subject to questionable evidence. The only source of these myths is the Bible which is anything but a reliable source of history.

Catholics and some brands of Protestantism both have laws against female clergy. This prohibition implies there is something inferior about the intellect of women. It tells us some super natural power has deemed that women are to be relegated to inferior positions in those churches.

All the backward branches of Christianity which prohibit women clergy would serve their own interests to dump those ideas from the Middle Ages. They should take note of progressive Christians and move into modern times.

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  1. tsmDecember 26, 2018 at 3:47 PM

    no surprise. sooner or later atheists, it seems, are bound to hit on this old fable. I am familiar with it: but as I recall it has been debunked. apart from that, you are most certainly locked into an increasingly outmoded view of "modern times". maybe it's the Hegelian in you.

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  2. tsmDecember 26, 2018 at 4:04 PM

    hey old timer. took a few minutes to look up the Pope Joan story. it seems that there was a 9th century yarn dreamed up by some Dominican concerning a woman dressed up as a man who got herself elected pope in the 800s (1100s). Maybe she/he was trans. bottom line: most scholars don't take the story seriously. feminists like it, however. a little historical revisionism to serve an ideology perhaps? if so that's something that you accuse Christians of doing with some regularity. maybe, then, skepticism kicks in only when it serves your ideological proclivities. BTW where did you come your flaming devotion to the radical feminist cause?

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