Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01007)

> Morten,
> Just curious--
>
> > > A book titled "THE VATICAN'S WOMEN" written by Paul Hofmann
> (He was for 35 years a foreign correspondent for The New York Times )
> http://www.americamagazine.org/BookReview.cfm?textID=2540&articletypeid=31&;
> issueID=405
> (It is about Pope Joan, Mother Teresa and also - Opus Dei)<<
>
> Who was "Pope Joan?"
There is a theory that someone (sort of like Yentl) who was a woman who 
pretended to be a man, and rose through the ranks to become Pope. It is 
said that, because of the scandal (some people say she became pregnant 
while pope) that there is now a "Pope's Chair" so that someone reach up 
from below to test to see if the person is really a man. (The chair 
supposedly has a hole in it so that the person can test for testicles).

I don't think the name is actually significant. Joan is similar to John.

(Yentl is a cute movie ... read more about it at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/6301978587/ref=nosim/recommendations
Barbra Streisand played a Rabbi's daughter who, after her father's 
death, became a boy in order to study the Torah in more depth.)


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