Papal Procedural Perversion
Apr. 16th, 2005 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
c9"But there is one formality that will likely not be observed. Perhaps it never was, and thus is more myth than fact, arising as it does from the folklore of a female pontiff, Pope Joan.
According to the story, the pope's womanhood was discovered when she went into premature labour during a procession. Shocked and revolted, the crowd stoned the pope to death. A tiny Madonna shrine on the Via dei Querceti marks the spot where Joan, her believers claim, was killed and buried.
To prevent any similar deception, it is said, every newly elected pope has his genitals felt by the electing cardinals, groping through a hole in a ceremonial porphyry chair."
From the Toronto Star
According to the story, the pope's womanhood was discovered when she went into premature labour during a procession. Shocked and revolted, the crowd stoned the pope to death. A tiny Madonna shrine on the Via dei Querceti marks the spot where Joan, her believers claim, was killed and buried.
To prevent any similar deception, it is said, every newly elected pope has his genitals felt by the electing cardinals, groping through a hole in a ceremonial porphyry chair."
From the Toronto Star
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