In July 1990, six people — a would-be priest, his parents, and three others — gathered in the family thrift store in Belvue, Kansas and held what they called a papal conclave. On the first ballot they elected one of their own, 30-year-old David Bawden, who took the name Pope Michael. — Read the rest
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