On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:46:09 +0000, Nightjar
wrote:

The legend of Pope Joan was quite effectively disproved by a 17th
century Protestant historian David Blondel.

So, the reason a new Pope is sat on a bottomless chair and his
testicles inspected, is for no other reason than sheer curiosity?
Nothing to do with the RC church being hoodwinked, at all?