Thursday, September 24, 2015

The Physics of Popes

In honor of the visit of Pope Francis to the United States, I want to talk a bit about popes and antipopes. But what, you may ask, is an antipope? An antipope is anyone who falsely claims to be the pope. For instance, the papal claimants residing at Avignon during the Great Schism of the 14th century are considered to be antipopes. This leads to a further question: what happens when a pope meets an antipope?

The answer: they annihilate and produce two Protestants. Because you have to conserve Anglican momentum.

5 comments:

Priya Palande said...

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I have really become a fan of your writing...

Mark Shea said...

Grooooooooooan....

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

Actually, there was ONE Protestant produced by a Pope and an Antipope TRYING to annihilate each other.

Wycliff, famously, noted that if both Popes called each other Antichrist, they were both right.

False, papacy is NOT "VICarIVs fILII DeI" as so often proposed by Protestants, BUT, if the background to his observation is true, it serves to show that calling an ANTI-Pope Antichrist does not involve Protestant heresy, since two Popes, one of which the true one, were in fact doing so.

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

Actually, since today's 20 odd Popes would include 1 real and 19-odd false Popes, this is good to keep in mind.

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