You can tell a lot about a man (or an organization) by his enemies.
For a moment there I thought you were referring to Joan of Ark.
I'm breathlessly awaiting ABC's next passionate reportage: "Was Mohammed A Child Molester?"
Followed by:
Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing
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How is this "anti-Catholic"? I find it interesting.
Let me know when Diane Sawyer does one of these "investigative reports" on Mohammed, will you?
Right up there with Chariots of the Gods.
Actually, I think it does. The Catholic church will hardly rise or fall based on an "investigation" on ABC's "Primetime" of something that may or may not have happened 400 years ago. It just goes to show how desperate the media has become in their effort to make news. What's next...perhaps an in depth investigation into the Abominable Snowman? It would be just as relevant. Just do what 99.5% of the rest of America does, and ignore the show altogether.
This was already a film with Liv Ulman in 1972.
I read about Pope Joan years ago, can't remember where
According to the story I read, "he" was discovered as a "she" when she went into labor during a processional
John Anglicus was a ninth century Englishman. He travelled to Athens where he gained a reputation for his knowledge of the sciences. Eventually he came to lecture at the Trivium in Rome where his fame grew even larger. He became a Cardinal, and when Pope Leo IV died in 853 A.D., he was unanimously elected pope.
As Pope John VIII he ruled for two years, until 855 A.D. However, while riding one day from St. Peter's to the Lateran, he had to stop by the side of the road and, to the astonishment of everyone, gave birth to a child. It turned out that Pope John VIII was really a woman. In other words, Pope John was really Pope Joan.
Engraving of Pope Joan from an 18th Century polemic, "A Present for a Papist." Note the infant at her feet. According to legend, upon discovering the Pope's true gender, the people of Rome tied her feet together and dragged her behind a horse while stoning her, until she died. Another legend has it that she was sent to a faraway convent to repent her sins and that the child she bore grew up to become the Bishop of Ostia.
It is not known whether the story of Pope Joan is true. The first known reference to her occurs in the thirteenth century, 350 years after her supposed reign. Around this time her image also began to appear as the High Priestess card in the Tarot deck.
The Catholic Church at first seemed to accept the reality of Pope Joan. Marginal notes in a fifteenth century document refer to a statue called "The Woman Pope with Her Child" that was supposedly erected near the Lateran. There was also a rumor that for some years the chairs used during papal consecrations had holes in their seats, so that an official check of the pope's gender could be performed.
During the Reformation in the sixteenth century, the Catholic Church began to deny the existence of Pope Joan. However, at the same time, Protestant writers insisted on her reality, primarily because the existence of a female pope was a convenient piece of anti-Catholic propaganda.
Modern scholars have been unable to resolve the historicity of Pope Joan.
While the public has not seen the program, NBC is promoting "The Book of Daniel" as a serious drama about Christian people and the Christian faith. The main character is Daniel Webster, a drug-addicted Episcopal priest whose wife depends heavily on her mid-day martinis.
Webster regularly sees and talks with a very unconventional white-robed, bearded Jesus. The Webster family is rounded out by a 23-year-old homosexual Republican son, a 16-year-old daughter who is a drug dealer, and a 16-year-old adopted son who is having sex with the bishop's daughter. At the office, his lesbian secretary is sleeping with his sister-in-law.
NBC and the mainstream media call it "edgy," "challenging" and "courageous." The series is written by Jack Kenny, a practicing homosexual who describes himself as being "in Catholic recovery," and is interested in Buddhist teachings about reincarnation and isn't sure exactly how he defines God and/or Jesus. "I don't necessarily know that all the myth surrounding him (Jesus) is true," he said.
Would the alphabet media group try this will Islam? Hecccckkk NO! you gotta be a Christian of any stripe to be besmirched by the MSM and the ACLU.
Although the myth of Pope Joan is just that - a myth, one original usurper of Christendom was a woman, namely the Empress Theodora. She may be the figure upon whom the fictional Pope Joan was based. Her own official biographer Procopius wrote his Secret History to ensure that she [and Justinian] be known for their crimes.
http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/library-procopius/secrethistory-2.htm
Well, I've never heard of it and I'm interested in the story.
I'll make sure and watch.. I missed most of the current events in the 13th century.
I couldn't be happier that the writers of the "Code" are being sued by the guys who wrote "Holy Blood, Holy Grail."
This rising tide of anti-Christian bias, which needs confronting, is misdirected anger at Islam which, as we all know, is politically incorrect and dangerous to attack.
The only answer to Islam is Christ. The anti-Christians can't handle that.
So when in Diane Sawyer doing a show on the Protocols of the Eldes of Zion?
Oh, thought it was a story about Joan Lunden.