{"id":7267,"date":"2018-11-08T13:06:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T19:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=7267"},"modified":"2018-11-08T13:07:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T19:07:43","slug":"once-and-future-popes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/once-and-future-popes-7267.htm","title":{"rendered":"Once and Future Popes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ganymede-pix.png\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[7267]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ganymede-pix.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ganymede-pix.png 410w, http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ganymede-pix-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Vigan\u00f2 (and many others) has called on Pope Francis to resign. He won\u2019t, of course; Francis is a stubborn old man and feels much put upon, merely because he has done what most, if not all, popes have done in handling problems in the church: Blame the messenger and look away.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, we don\u2019t know whom we might get next. It might be someone of Cardinal McCarrick\u2019s ilk, or a favorite of \u201cnighty-night, baby\u201d Cardinal Tobin.<br \/>\nThe learned and perspicacious John Bellairs reminds us of Old Anti-Catholic Canards, such as the Pope Joan story. He explains it in this way:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome foolish people believe there was once a female Pope who was elected by mistake. This story probably originated several years after the papacy of Ganymede V, a Pope of doubtful masculinity. This golden-haired, rather limp-wristed young man was elected in 1503, after an unusually long run of lecherous Popes; the feeling was that he would reverse the trend. The chronically anti-Catholic historian Furze calls Ganymede \u201ca raving queen,\u2019 but that indelicate epithet is unkindly used against this admittedly confused man, who had a habit of fainting into the arms of Leonardo da Vinci. It is true, of course, that Leonardo\u2019s unfinished painting \u201cSaint Sebastian Dying in a Bed of Zinnias\u201d was inspired by the sight of Ganymede running through the Boboli Gardens, clad only in a kirtle of begonias. But all rumors, true or otherwise, should have stopped when Ganymede was found dead in his bed one summer day in 1505. He had been smothered by orchids, which were poured into the room by the skylight while he slept.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7267\" data-postid=\"7267\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7267 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Archbishop Vigan\u00f2 (and many others) has called on Pope Francis to resign. He won\u2019t, of course; Francis is a stubborn old man and feels much put upon, merely because he has done what most, if not all, popes have done in handling problems in the church: Blame the messenger and look away. In any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popes","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7270,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267\/revisions\/7270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}