St James, Piccadilly The struggles of a cross-dressing female pope with morning sickness make for a rollicking medieval soap operaThe 21st-century Church of England still ties itself up in knots over the appointment of women bishops, but some believe that in the ninth century the Catholic church briefly had a female pope.Joan, who dressed as a man but was all woman, famously appears as one of the historical female di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:35AM on September 4, 2013