Pope Michael In Print
After the election on July 16, 1990, there was a great deal of interest. KTKA-TV in Topeka carried a story as did several newspapers. This flurry of activity slowed until a few years ago.
Michael Fighting
"Michael…who standeth for…thy people," — Dan. 12:1-12
Links to Newspaper Articles
The Topeka Capital Journal
Other newspaper articles have been written. Use the search engine above to help locate these.
On March 31, 2004, Dutch Catholic Television interviewed Pope Michael, Teresa Benns and Clara Bawden, the Pope's mother for the entire day. This aired in April of the same year. The Dutch Pog Bishops from the church usurping the name Catholic were very unhappy that this story even aired. Dutch Catholic television graciously provided the Pope with a copy of the piece that airedIn a clip of Roncalli, he is seen to make the Sign of the Cross upside down as Montini, Wojtyla and Ratzinger also do it..
John Allen a Vatican Expert on the Pog Church wrote a book some years back detailing who might be elected to succeed Karol Wojtyla as usurping antipope. In the introduction he relates (although somewhat inaccurately) the details of the election of Pope Michael in 1990. His conclusion is that everyone knows that Popes are elected, then he proceeds into considering the Pog church and the election that would someday occur, when Wojtyla died.
Thomas Frank interviewed Pope Michael and then devoted a whole chapter Antipoeps Among Us. He was not very kind to the Pope, but he called his parent's home in Kansas City, Kansas a tear down, meaning the lot was worth more if you destroyed the house than if you left it.
Alleluia America by Carole Coleman is an interesting book on religion in America. Coleman is Irish by birth and is working in the United States. The Pope's interview with her was quite fascinating. Carole reports that religion is just not that important in what used to be Catholic Ireland.