Norwich does not shy away from the controversial popes of the early centuries, including the possibility of a female pope (alternately known as Pope Joan or Agnes) in the first century, and Pope John XII who was the exemplar of debauchery. The Vatican--two accounts More results ► Dictionar...
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In this telling of the story, the pope now has a name, and her demise becomes different, and there are more details. In particular, he says that the pope was John VIII, which would have put it in the 9th century, sometime around the year 882, almost a full 200 years before the or...
Royidis's classic Papissa Joanna--the story of history's only female pope. The story's source is a ninth-century legend: a girl disguised as a monk makes her way from Greece to Rome, is elevated to the throne of St. Peter, and rules over Christendom for a time as Pope John VIII...
though thelegendof a femalePope Joanappeared in the 13th century. During the course of the 2,000 years in which the papal system and the practice of electing popes in thepapal conclavehave evolved, the papacy has played a crucial role in both Western andworld history. The history of the ...
. . . Cardinal Wojytla plays with the son of his female friend, in back of whom appears a second woman, the other person in the group that makes up the outing. .. " On May 8, 1984 John Paul II presided, in Papua, New Guinea, over a "mass" in which the Epistle was read by...
Pope Joan, legendary female pontiff who supposedly reigned for more than 25 months, from 855 to 858, under the title of John VIII. It has subsequently been proved that a gap of only a few weeks fell between Pope Leo IV and Pope Benedict III and that the
Gregory readSt. Augustine of Hippo, but he was also deeply influenced by theascetictradition ofSt. John Cassian, theDesert Fathers, andSt. Jeromeand helped make monastic ideals more flexible and applicable to the church as a whole. Every Christian had a place in the concord of Gregory’s ch...
who were attacking the Italian mainland. Toalleviatea famine he used his father’s wealth, for the papal treasury was depleted. Against the Moravian Church, Stephenendorsedthe prohibition of the Slavic liturgy that had been sanctioned by PopeJohn VIII, thus pushing the Slavs into accepting Eastern...