Pope Francis appointed a woman to the highest-ever Vatican position held by a female Catholic. Francis too tried to stamp out any ambiguity in 2016, saying Benedict was "a pope emeritus and not the second pope," comparing his 10-year-old elder to "a grandfather at home". Esplanade of the Shrine of Our Lady of Fátima Thursday, 13 May 2010 . Pope Joan has remained a popular subject for fictional works. The first attack, in December 2008, was intercepted successfully by members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard. Pope Francis was happily greeting children and pilgrims in St. Peter's Square on Tuesday when he slapped a woman's hand to free himself. Bartolomeo Platina, the scholar who was prefect of the Vatican Library, wrote his Vitæ Pontificum Platinæ historici liber de vita Christi ac omnium pontificum qui hactenus ducenti fuere et XX in 1479 at the behest of his patron, Pope Sixtus IV. “We often worry about the social, cultural and political consequences of faith, taking for granted that this faith exists, ” declared Benedict XVI. [2][3] It was reported that she did not want to injure the Pope, and the Pope has forgiven her. Pope Joan, legendary female pontiff who supposedly reigned for more than 25 months, from 855 to 858, under the title of John VIII. However, the attribution of this work to Petrarch may be incorrect.[17]. 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The 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia elaborated on the historical timeline problem: Between Leo IV and Benedict III, where Martinus Polonus places her, she cannot be inserted, because Leo IV died 17 July 855, and immediately after his death Benedict III was elected by the clergy and people of Rome; but, owing to the setting up of an Antipope, in the person of the deposed Cardinal Anastasius, he was not consecrated until 29 September. Pope Joan has been associated with marvelous happenings. VATICAN CITY: A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter’s Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI at the start of Christmas Eve Mass, but the 82-year-old pontiff got up unhurt and proceeded as planned with Thursday’s service. Raemond's Erreur Populaire went through successive editions, reaching a fifteenth as late as 1691. “(Pope) Benedict XVI separated the diaconal ministry from Christ as head,” Spengler said. Pope Benedict (when he was still "Cardinal Ratzinger") wrote an important book on politics and morality. Most modern scholars dismiss Pope Joan as a medieval legend. After her death, it is said she was buried in that same place. xl in P.L., CXXXVI, 85). He vehemently asserted his own authority as patriarch over that of the pope in Rome, and would have made the most of any scandal of that time regarding the papacy; but he never mentions the story once in any of his voluminous writings. I had better mistake with the rest of the world, though it be certain, that what I have related may be thought not altogether incredible. Quotations by Pope Benedict XVI, German Clergyman, Born April 16, 1927. They flew miraculously through the air, and all drowned in the British Sea. [29], It has also been noted that enemies of the papacy in the 9th century make no mention of a female pope. [22][23], At the time of the Reformation, various Protestant writers took up the Pope Joan legend in their anti-Catholic writings, and the Catholics responded with their own polemic. Pope Benedict XVI delivered his Christmas Day blessing today hours after being attacked by a woman who jumped the barrier at the start of mass in St Peter's Basilica. There have been two films based on the story of Pope Joan: Pope Joan (1972), directed by Michael Anderson, was titled The Devil's Imposter in the US. Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy. Pope Benedict XVI Knocked Down By Woman At Christmas Mass … [18] The Chronicon of Adam of Usk (1404) gives her a name, Agnes, and furthermore mentions a statue in Rome that is said to be of her. Her story first appeared in chronicles in the 13th century and subsequently spread throughout Europe. On Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 Benedict XVI announced he would resign Feb. 28, the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years. According to the Chronicon: John Anglicus, born at Mainz, was Pope for two years, seven months and four days, and died in Rome, after which there was a vacancy in the Papacy of one month. The origin of the practice is uncertain, but it is quite likely that it was maintained because of widespread belief in the Joan legend, and it was thought genuinely to date back to that period. Norwich, John Julius. The same is true of Marianus Scotus's Chronicle of the Popes, a text written in the 11th century. When Petrus Hispanus was elected pope in 1276, he believed that there had already been twenty popes named John, so he skipped the number XX and numbered himself John XXI. A Woman's Defense of Pope Benedict XVI. She has both Italian and Swiss citizenship. According to Jean: [25][26] The book gives an account of Pope Joan giving birth to a son in plain view of all those around, accompanied by a detailed engraving showing a rather surprised looking baby peeking out from under the Pope's robes. However, other Protestant writers, such as David Blondel and Gottfried Leibniz, rejected the story. [31] Stanford's work has been criticised as "credulous" by one mainstream historian[who?]. One day, while mounting a horse, she gave birth to a child. HOLY MASS. [20], The legend of Pope Joan was "effectively demolished" by David Blondel, a mid-17th-century Protestant historian, who suggested that Pope Joan's tale may have originated in a satire against Pope John XI, who died in his early 20s. Jean de Mailly's story was picked up by his fellow Dominican Stephen of Bourbon, who adapted it for his work on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost. The golden bodies were rejected by the waves of the sea and corrupted the air, so that a great many people died. Speaking to journalists at a synod press briefing Oct. 25, Bishop Evaristo Pascoal Spengler… In his third book of Dialogues, Pope Victor III wrote of Benedict IX as having a "life as a pope so vile, so foul, so execrable, that I shudder to think of it." The homily celebrated in the large Terreiro do Paco square in Lisbon was attended by 200 thousand people. October 11, 2012: The investigation into the Legionaries is put on pause, allegedly because the Cardinal assigned needs to rest. From the mid-13th century onward, the legend was widely disseminated and believed. All these witnesses prove the correctness of the dates given in the lives of Leo IV and Benedict III, and there was no interregnum between these two Popes, so that at this place there is no room for the alleged Popess. [33], The sede stercoraria, the throne with a hole in the seat, now at St. John Lateran (the formal residence of the popes and center of Catholicism), is to be considered. This statue had never been mentioned by any earlier writer anywhere; presumably it was an actual statue that came to be taken to be of the female pope. GENERAL AUDIENCE. For years after his unexpected resignation, Pope Benedict live in silence in the Vatican. The woman … A Japanese girl asked the pope… The former pope Benedict XVI has difficulty speaking but is still “lucid and smiling,” according to a new cardinal who met the 93-year-old at the weekend. Due to the Dark Ages' lack of records, confusion often reigns in the evaluation of events. Giovanni Boccaccio wrote about her in De Mulieribus Claris (1353). APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF POPE BENEDICT XVI TO PORTUGAL ON THE OCCASION OF THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEATIFICATION OF JACINTA AND FRANCISCO, YOUNG SHEPHERDS OF FÁTIMA . In the 1290s, the Dominican Robert of Uzès recounted a vision in which he saw the seat "where, it is said, the pope is proved to be a man". [39], In July 2019, a theatric show was held in Malta at Mdina ditch featuring Pope Joan as the main character. January 30, 2013: the Acts of the Conference from a year ago are published an presented to Pope Benedict. [8][9] Protestant scholar David Blondel ultimately demonstrated the impossibility of the story. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images In the most common accounts, due to her abilities, she rose through the church hierarchy and was eventually elected pope. Pingback: Prophétie réalisée : le Pape Benoît XVI a été exilé…. February 7, 2018, 17:00 IST explore: World Earlier manuscripts do not contain the legend. The earliest mention of a female pope appears in the Dominican Jean de Mailly's chronicle of Metz, Chronica Universalis Mettensis, written in the early 13th century. Women at the service of the Gospel. For example, Photios I of Constantinople, who became Patriarch in 858 and was deposed by Pope Nicholas I in 863, was an enemy of the pope. FromRome.Info: The implications of this testimony is that Pope Benedict XVI has been manipulated since 2013, intentionally being placed in the hands of the person now denounced by Dr. Reisinger. It is claimed that this John was a woman, who as a girl had been led to Athens dressed in the clothes of a man by a certain lover of hers. D. [25] It was republished in 1675 as A Present for a Papist: Or the Life and Death of Pope Joan, Plainly Proving Out of the Printed Copies, and Manscriptes of Popish Writers and Others, That a Woman called Joan, Was Really Pope of Rome, and Was There Deliver'd of a Bastard Son in the Open Street as She Went in Solemn Procession. Bd. On 7 October 855, Benedict III issued a charter for the Abbey of Corvey. It is out of sequence, and in a different hand, one that dates from after the time of Martin of Opava. In his weekly addresses, Pope Benedict XVI expertly and thoughtfully Dear brothers and sisters, history records almost exclusively the accomplishments of men, when in fact much of it is due to the determined, unrelenting, and charitable action of women. Her name is Christine Felder and she… Other references to the female pope are attributed to earlier writers, though none appears in manuscripts that predate the Chronica. Susanna Maiolo (born 8 November 1984) is a Swiss-Italian woman who twice attempted to attack Pope Benedict XVI. [19], In 1601, Pope Clement VIII declared the legend of the female pope to be untrue. In 2009, a woman jumped a barrier and lunged at Pope Benedict XVI, knocking him to the ground. Come to him. The play Top Girls by Caryl Churchill featured Pope Joan as a character, who was invited to a restaurant along with other historically important women in the past by a modern-day woman, Marlene, to discuss the restriction of feminism in the past. This "witness" to the female pope is likely to be based upon Martin's account, and not a possible source for it. Ex Pope Benedict Says He is in the Last Phase of His Life. It has been speculated that they originally were Roman bidets or imperial birthing stools, which because of their age and imperial links were used in ceremonies by Popes intent on highlighting their own imperial claims (as they did also with their Latin title, Pontifex Maximus). He expressed the Pope's concern for her and said the Pope believed in her good intentions and had pardoned her. Habicht and grapho-analyst Marguerite Spycher analyzed papal monograms on medieval coins and found that there were two significantly different monograms attributed to Pope John VIII. Ex-pope Benedict broke silence recently over key issues in Catholicism, raising serious questions within the Church about the extent to which there are, in fact, two 'men in white' at the Vatican. [5], Maiolo and two of her family had a brief private audience with Pope Benedict after the morning general audience on 13 January 2010 in a room adjoining the Paul VI Audience Hall. Pope Benedict XVI uses a handkerchief, during Christmas Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009. But it doesn't do enough to advance women in the church. According to this, she did not die immediately after her exposure, but was confined and deposed, after which she did many years of penance. ‘Pope Joan’ Chapter VI, pp. [28] The Oxford Dictionary of Popes[21] declares that there is "no contemporary evidence for a female Pope at any of the dates suggested for her reign", but nonetheless acknowledges that Pope Joan's legend was widely believed for centuries, even by Catholics. While Pope, however, she became pregnant by her companion. From one point of view we are better off than any preceding generation. I know that many of us wondered what really happened to prompt Pope Benedict XVI to step down; and then to have the Jesuit/Marxist Francis take his place. An English writer, Alexander Cooke, wrote a book entitled Pope Joane: A Dialogue between a Protestant and a Papist, which purported to prove the existence of Pope Joan by reference to Catholic traditions. The Lord Pope always turns aside from the street, and it is believed by many that this is done because of abhorrence of the event. [7] The Vatican public prosecutor Nicola Picardi and spokesman Federico Lombardi said that she would probably be released. Only one. -- Pope Benedict XVI From Scripture through today, women have always played a unique and critical role in Church history. Also in 2009, another film with the title Pope Joan was released, this one a German, British, Italian and Spanish production directed by Sönke Wortmann and produced by Bernd Eichinger, based on Cross's novel. Rugby: Women's World Cup to be expanded to 16 teams from 2025. Pope Francis appointed a woman to the highest-ever Vatican position held by a female Catholic. One version of the Chronicon gives an alternative fate for the female pope. Speaking to journalists at a synod press briefing Oct. 25, Bishop Evaristo Pascoal Spengler of Marajo said the revision was “an important step” in that [30] This also agrees with the earliest known version of the legend, by Jean de Mailly, as he places the story in the year 1099. In 2009, a woman jumped a barrier and lunged at Pope Benedict XVI, knocking him to the ground. At the same time, the four-day fast called the "fast of the female Pope" was first established.[14]. It was around this time that a long series of busts of past Popes was made for the Duomo of Siena, which included one of the female pope, named as "Johannes VIII, Foemina de Anglia" and included between Leo IV and Benedict III. Her sex was revealed when she gave birth during a procession, and she died shortly after, either through murder or of natural causes. In France there appeared marvelous locusts, which had six wings and very powerful teeth. By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A change to the Code of Canon Law made by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009 provides a canonical path to allow the ordination of women deacons, a Brazilian bishop said. … As she was going to the Lateran Church between the Colossean Theatre (so called from Nero's Colossus) and St. Clement's her travail came upon her, and she died upon the place, having sat two years, one month, and four days, and was buried there without any pomp. Nor is she placed on the list of the Holy Pontiffs, both because of her female sex and on account of the foulness of the matter. ... Pope Benedict wants his name removed from book about priestly celibacy Chico Harlan, Michelle Boorstein. Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 14 February 2007 . God Men Peace. Howard Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robbin Hood contains a reference. The 93-year-old pope emeritus’ new comments, which tied same-sex marriage to the Antichrist, surfaced in a new biography about him, “Benedict XVI — A Life,” that features an interview with Benedict by journalist Peter Seewald of Germany. To welcome the Pope arrived in Lisbon, was the president of Portugal Anibal Cavaco Silva. HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI. Martin introduced details that the female pope's birth name was John Anglicus of Mainz, that she reigned in the 9th century, and that she entered the church to follow her lover. Hus's opponents at this trial insisted that his argument proved no such thing about the independence of the Church, but they did not dispute that there had been a female pope at all. The accounts state that later church processions avoided this spot, and that the Vatican removed the female pope from its official lists and crafted a ritual to ensure that future popes were male. Trouvez les France.The Pope images et les photos d’actualités parfaites sur Getty Images. Some versions of the legend suggest that subsequent popes were subjected to an examination whereby, having sat on a so-called sedia stercoraria or "dung chair" containing a hole, a cardinal had to reach up and establish that the new pope had testicles, before announcing "Duos habet et bene pendentes" ("He has two, and they dangle nicely"),[15] or "habet" ("he has them") for short.[16]. Against the lack of historical evidence to her existence, the question remains as to why the Pope Joan story has been popular and widely believed. While any Catholic male could theoretically become the next pope, there's one group who's not even in the running: women. Only he can satisfy us. Share with your friends. However, there is no evidence that this practice dated back any earlier. 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 story is entirely apocryphal. Phil., M. Theo. The Greek author Emmanuel Rhoides' 1866 novel, The Papess Joanne, was admired by Mark Twain and Alfred Jarry and freely translated by Lawrence Durrell as The Curious History of Pope Joan (1954). Then there is the curious fact that no legitimate historical source exists that mentions a woman pontiff until the middle of the 13th century, some 400 years later. In 2009, it was recut to include more of John Briley's original script and released as She... who would be Pope. A high opinion of her life and learning arose in the city; and she was chosen for Pope. Pope Benedict XVI continues his exploration of the greatest teachers and role models in the history of the Church with these sketches of twenty-six men and women from the Middle Ages and beyond.From the start of his pontificate, the Pope has used his Wednesday audiences to present the timeless wisdom that has been expressed in the writings and lives of holy men and women down through the ages. Although some medieval writers referred to the female pope as "John VIII", a genuine Pope John VIII reigned between 872 and 882. [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47], woman who reigned as pope during the Middle Ages, according to legend, Ch. References to the female Pope abound in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. This story is vulgarly told, but by very uncertain and obscure authors, and therefore I have related it barely and in short, lest I should seem obstinate and pertinacious if I had admitted what is so generally talked. There she became proficient in a diversity of branches of knowledge, until she had no equal, and, afterward in Rome, she taught the liberal arts and had great masters among her students and audience. But given the Pope’s reliance on her as his all-access confidante, the better analogy is to see Stampa as Karen Hughes to Benedict’s President Bush. This and other toilet-like chairs were used in the consecration of Pope Pascal II in 1099. Dear Pilgrims, “Their descendants shall be renowned among the nations […], … Pope Francis and Pope Benedict exchange Christmas greetings in the Mater Ecclesiae monastery, Benedict's residence, on December 23, 2013, in Vatican City. [4][5][6], The Pope's personal secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, visited her at the clinic on 1 January 2010. Pope Francis has apologized for slapping a woman's hand to free himself from her grip while greeting children and pilgrims in St. Peter's Square on New Year's Eve. [34] In fact, one is still in the Vatican Museums, another at the Musée du Louvre. REUTERS/Giampiero Sposito However, it’s nice to see that he respects and values a woman’s opinion. [13], Alain Boureau quotes the humanist Jacopo d'Angelo de Scarparia, who visited Rome in 1406 for the enthronement of Gregory XII. The famous bust of her, inscribed Johannes VIII, Femina ex Anglia, which had been carved for the series of papal figures in the Duomo di Siena about 1400 and was noted by travelers, was either destroyed or recarved and relabeled, replaced by a male figure, that of Pope Zachary. Rosemary and Darroll Pardoe, authors of The Female Pope: The Mystery of Pope Joan, theorize that if a female pope did exist, a more plausible time frame is 1086 and 1108, when there were several antipopes; during this time the reign of the legitimate popes Victor III, Urban II, and Paschal II was not always established in Rome, since the city was occupied by Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and later sacked by the Normans. Pope Benedict XV (Latin: Benedictus XV; Italian: Benedetto XV), born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa (Italian: [ˈdʒa:komo ˈpa:olo dʒoˈvanni batˈtista della ˈkjɛ:za]; 21 November 1854 – 22 January 1922), was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in 1922. It also changes the date from the 11th to the 9th century, indicating that Joan reigned between Leo IV and Benedict III in the 850s. Pope Benedict XVI greets a woman during a meeting with youth at the Cathedral in Sulmona, Italy on July 4, 2010. The very date of the hypothetical election makes the story easily dismissed, for the interregnum between Popes Leo IV and Benedict III was much shorter than two years (it lasted only a few weeks). Even in the 19th century, authors such as Ewaldus Kist and Karl Hase discussed the story as a real occurrence. This woman recognized something that most of us don't - or that we have forgotten. [21], The 16th-century Italian historian Onofrio Panvinio, commenting on one of Bartolomeo Platina's works that refer to Pope Joan, theorized that the story of Pope Joan may have originated from tales of Pope John XII; John reportedly had many mistresses, including one called Joan, who was very influential in Rome during his pontificate. “And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, ... Vice President Joe Biden, and Obama/Clinton adviser John Podesta conspire to overthrow the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and replace him with a radical, Pope Francis? October 2012: Don Oko publishes the book, Pope Benedict against the Homo-Heresy. The first attack, in December 2008, was intercepted successfully by members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard. 99: "De Ioannae Anglica Papa;" it begins succinctly "Ioannes esto Vir nomine videbature, sexu tamen fœmina fuit.". The tract applied humanist techniques of textual criticism to the Pope Joan legend, with the broader intent of supplying sound historical principles to ecclesiastical history, and the legend began to come apart, detail by detail. +Jesus i trust in You! Pope Benedict XVI is currently the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. [10][11] Pope Joan is now widely considered fictional, though the legend remains influential in cultural depictions.[12][13]. Peter Stanford, a British writer and former editor of The Catholic Herald, concluded in The Legend of Pope Joan: In Search of the Truth (2000) "Weighing all th[e] evidence, I am convinced that Pope Joan was an historical figure, though perhaps not all the details about her that have been passed on down the centuries are true". The earliest mention of a female pope appears in the Dominican Jean de Mailly's chronicle of Metz, Chronica Universalis Mettensis, written in the early 13th century. Nothing in this world - no thing, no place, no person can give us peace, lasting happiness. [21] Blondel, through detailed analysis of the claims and suggested timings, argued that no such events could have happened. Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives to lead the Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's square, at the Vatican October 24, 2012. Philip Jenkins in The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice suggests that the periodic revival of what he calls this "anti-papal legend" has more to do with feminist and anti-Catholic wishful thinking than historical accuracy. Maiolo told the Pope she regretted the incident. Authorities said that Maiolo is mentally unwell and she was held for a week's evaluation at a psychiatric hostel in Subiaco near Rome. ... God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth. His pontificate was largely overshadowed by World War I and its political, social, and humanitarian consequences in Europe. The second attack, on 24 December 2009, happened during the procession to the Christmas Eve Midnight Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, where she knocked the Pope and French cardinal Roger Etchegaray to the floor, breaking the cardinal's leg and hip, and leaving the Pope uninjured. VATICAN CITY: A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter’s Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI at the start of Christmas Eve Mass, but the 82-year-old pontiff got up unhurt and proceeded as planned with Thursday’s service. Through ignorance of the exact time when the birth was expected, she was delivered of a child while in procession from St. Peter's to the Lateran, in a lane once named Via Sacra (the sacred way) but now known as the "shunned street" between the Colosseum and St Clement's church. [36] In the 11th century, Pope John XIV was mistakenly counted as two popes. De Mailly's account was acknowledged by his companion Stephen of Bourbon.

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