[Antoninus]

So what if there was a woman pope? It wouldn't be the end of the world and it wouldn't have any affect whatsoever on Christian beliefs.

Uh, because it's not true. Why not just run a piece on how the Bush Admin blew up the WTC on purpose, or how the Holocaust never happened, or how Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene? There's as much "evidence" for all of these claims as there is for "Pope Joan."

[billbears]

Well doing a couple of searches apparently the Catholic Church did not begin denying this pope Joan until the 16th century. It is curious that they allow the story to stand for close to 300 years before they begin denying it though. I found this to be particularly interesting

The story of a pope named Joan, writes historian J.N.D. Kelly in his Oxford Dictionary of Popes, "was accepted without question in Catholic circles for centuries." Only after the Reformation, when Protestants used the story to poke fun at Roman Catholics, did the Vatican begin to deny that one of its Holy Fathers had become an unholy mother.

And I'm not sure how you can equate thousands or millions of deaths and the Divinity and Gospel of Jesus Christ to whether or not some priest was actually a priestess

[ninenot]

Don't forget that the CIA spread AIDS in the black community.