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Pope Joan (Ioannes Anglicus, 855–857) was an anti-Catholic legend about a woman who purportedly reigned as pope for two years during the Middle Ages. [1]
In the 13th century, authors began to write of a mythical female pope – Pope Joan – who managed to disguise her gender until giving birth during a procession in Rome. [15] Blainey cites the ever-growing veneration of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene as evidence of a high standing for female Christians at that time.
The Papess Joanne (Greek: Ἡ Πάπισσα Ἰωάννα, romanized: Hē Pápissa Iōánna) is a 1866 novel by Greek writer Emmanuel Rhoides.Published with the subtitle "medieval study", [a] the novel is an exploration of the European legend of Pope Joan, a woman who allegedly ascended the church hierarchy and reigned as pope in disguise some time in the late 9th century.
In the 13th century, authors [who?] began to write of a mythical female pope—Pope Joan—who managed to disguise her gender until giving birth during a procession in Rome. [107] Blainey cites the ever-growing veneration of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene as evidence of a high standing for female Christians at that time.
"Joan" disguised herself as a monk, called Joannes Anglicus. In time, she rose to the highest office of the church, becoming a pope. After two or five years of reign, "Pope Joan" became pregnant and, during an Easter procession, she gave birth to the child on the streets when she fell off a horse. She was publicly stoned to death by the ...
The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave violations of human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that reject God’s plan ...
In 1679, Pope Innocent XI also weighed in by condemning "marital sex exercised for pleasure alone". [72] The Church position on sexual activity can be summarized as: "sexual activity belongs only in marriage as an expression of total self-giving and union, and always open to the possibility of new life".
There is a chapter on Pope Joan, the woman who by legend, having kept her gender a secret was elected pope in 855, but became pregnant and gave delivery during a procession from Old St. Peter's Basilica to the Lateran, in a narrow lane.