The war on the One True Church continues apace.

ABC News airs 'female pope' claim
Catholics say 'Joan' a myth used historically to ridicule church --WND

But Catholic writer Philip Jenkins, in his book "The New Anti-Catholicism, calls the "Pope Joan legend" a "venerable staple of the anti-Catholic mythology."

"Though it has not the slightest foundation," he writes, "from the sixteenth century through the nineteenth, the tale was beloved by Protestants, since it testified to Catholic stupidity. ..." Today, he says, "Pope Joan enjoys a lively presence on the Web, where feminist anti-Catholics celebrate her existence much as did seventeenth-century Calvinists."

The posting on the Newsbusters site said: "That a major network like ABC would lend credibility to such a vicious anti-Catholic smear is deplorable."

There never has been a rule against a woman becoming pope. One does not not even have to be an ordained priest. This is just another example proving that anti-Catholicism is the only acceptable prejudice in America.