We Will Not Be Outantipoped!
Thanks to religionnewsblog.com, you can read all about some guy in Spain who says he's the real pope. Idiot. He says he's the pope and he's not even living in Avignon.
Andrew Cusack's blog was a revelation to me. Warning: there's some catholic content here. Deep, deep catholic content. This guy seems to be living in an alternate universe where everyone spends their days reinacting 400-year-old events from church history or attending banquets for exclusive 300-year-old catholic prep school clubs. (Yes, I don't get it either: "everyone" belongs to "exclusive" clubs. Hey, it isn't my alternate universe.) The whole thing is very charming but a little suffocating. And bewildering--Andrew attends ceremonies the way Max Fischer produces amateur theatricals, cramming infinite activity into finite amounts of time. I.e.: impossibly.
Anyway, scroll down and you'll see Andrew possesses what just may be the only japanese antipope in captivity.
And then there's the amazing antipope of Montana. Now this is getting depressing--they've even got a picture of a barn belching white smoke to announce this pope's election. Talk about having a serious form-content discontinuity. The more-catholic-than-the-pope game is for losers.
You've heard of John Paul II, haven't you? Lives in the Vatican, wears a big white hat, travels a lot? Turns out he's not the pope, according to this webpage. The author also slams people who "claim to be Lutheran." I guess he's talking about me.
Okay, I've reached my saturation point. I'm afraid I'm going to regret this little research project.
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
3 Comments:
I can't resist mentioning that Kansas has its own antipope:
http://popemichael.homestead.com/index.html
--Don
Thanks Don--You're contribution is truly in the spirit of the post, and is much appreciated. I followed the link but didn't happen to see anything by way of an explanation of the legal underpinnings of this pope's election, which is disappointing. When the splinter group is not headed by a bishop, I'm always curious to see how they sidestep that small doctrinal principle known as "apostolic succession." This guy doesn't mention a following. Maybe his papacy rests on some kind of "last man standing" principle.
As I looked at Michael I's site, I couldn't help but think: this guy may not be the true pope, but his hit count is higher than mine.
-Pope Fredosphere XXIII
Would Pope Shenouda III of the Coptic Church be considered an Antipope? Is it the title itself that's important here, or do we have to limit ourselves to folks claiming they lead the Catholic church?
I'm protestant, so these matters confuse me. I don't even understand what they were talking about when Mickey Roark was called "The Pope of Greenwich Village."
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