Real or staged...this should not have happened. I produce threads and posts which are critical of the Vatican...throughout it's history...but I have zero ill-will toward the Pope and the Vatican. However...I did think about the second or third episode of the new 'V' series...where there was a staged attack against a Visitor leader...designed to sway public opinion. So who knows? I don't trust anyone or anything. I hate being this way...but the world is making me hard and bitter! If they really want to terminate a Pope...they can get to them in the most secure places in the Vatican. Remember Pope John Paul I? I keep wondering If Albino Luciani was beginning to chase the Satanists and Money-Changers out of the Vatican...and was beginning to reveal the true nature of the Alien Presence and the existence of the Underground Bases and Secret Space Program...and to begin to follow the Teachings of Jesus instead of Canon Law. We may never know...but it seems that he profoundly angered the most powerful forces on Earth (and off world?). Scary stuff. Ignorance is bliss.
Namaste