IF we had a female Pope, what would her title be?

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Her title must share a rhyme with Pope!
If the male Pope is called a Pope, then the female pope is called a nope
 
All due respect, but don’t I need to be Catholic before I can be a heretic?
 
Popess, Popette, or Mome. I think these would be good suggestions.
It’s clear that your question is hypothetical and more in a sense of fantasy as well, so I shan’t slag you off as a “heretic asking ridiculous questions” as so many others have done.
 
Apparently we do @AugustTherese
It seems that so many are oblivious to the fact that the question is a “What IF”.

Blessings.
 
The first character of her unpronounceable title would be a square circle.
 
I think he was saying that would the title of the female pope, “heretic”.
 
@discobot fortune, would @SammyRose be an antipope however?
 
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Discobot can I be a valid pope? Also will I not be an antipope?
@discobot fortune
 
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That’s incorrect. I checked the original Latin texts and the word that was used was “papisa”.

What you suggested is possible in English, because English does not have grammatical gender, but not in Latin, precisely because it does.
 
Well, that could be because the legend had it that this person had pretended to be a male. There was more than one version going around (and scholars later deemed the entire story to have been a fabrication), but regardless of which one the jig was up when the deception was discovered. That is not parallel to what the OP is suggesting.

My answer is that there is no telling what the protocols would be in the theoretical case where things go to H#$% in a handbasket. The official language of the Church could be Esperanto by then. Pigs will be flying.
All bets will be off.
http://www.ikue.org/info/en_info.htm
 
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If you mean that the English word “Pope” has been used to translate the Latin word “papisa” that appears in the Latin texts, then that is correct. The translators could have used “Popess”, though, and would have been well within their rights.

But it is incorrect to say that in English that “pope” is inherently a male title. English does not have grammatical gender, and whether a word is a a male or female title depends solely on the gender of the person to whom it refers. When referring to the fictional pope in question, it is unambiguously a female title.
 
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