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CATHOLIC Pope Will DIE Within A Year: VATICAN ‘Assassination Fears’ REVEALED
The Pope will die within the next 12 months, a senior Vatican figure has reportedly claimed amid fears of an assassination plot.
Pope Benedict XVI Photo: AP
The sensational prediction was allegedly made by Cardinal Paolo Romeo, the archbishop of Palermo in Sicily, on a recent visit to China.
Cardinal Romeo reportedly made the startling prediction of the Pope’s death during a trip to China in November 2011.
He seemed so sure of the fact that the people he spoke with, including Italian businessmen and Chinese representatives of the Catholic Church, were convinced that he was talking about an assassination attempt.
They were so alarmed by his remarks that they reported them back to the Vatican.
The extraordinary comments were written up in a top-secret report, dated Dec 30, 2011, and delivered to the Pope by a senior cardinal, Dario Castrillon Hoyos, a Colombian, in January.
The Vatican has reportedly opened an investigation into the claims.
The report was written in German, apparently to limit the number of people within the Vatican who would understand it if it was inadvertently leaked.
It warns of a “Mordkomplott” – death plot – against Benedict.
The story was broken on Friday by an Italian daily, Il Fatto Quotidiano, with the headline “Plot against the Pope – he will die within 12 months”.
The newspaper, which has a reputation for scoops, published a page from the confidential report.
“During his talks in China, Cardinal Romeo predicted the death of Benedict XVI within 12 months. His remarks were expressed with such certainty and resolution that the people he was speaking to thought, with a sense of alarm, that an attack on the Pope’s life was being planned,” the paper reported.
“Cardinal Romeo could never have imagined that the indiscreet remarks he made on the trip to China would be communicated back to the Vatican by third parties.”
Asked about the reported comments on Friday, however, Romeo said that the words attributed to him were “absolutely without basis.”
“It is so outside of reality that it should not be given any consideration,” Romeo was quoted by Italian news agency ANSA as saying.
The Vatican’s spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, said the report was “so incredible that we cannot comment on it”.
“It seems to me something that is so far from reality that I don’t even want to address it,” Father Lombardi said. “It seems an incredible story and I don’t want to comment.”
He did not deny the existence of the document to AFP, but added that it was “devoid of reality”.
Cardinal Romeo also named Benedict’s XVI likely successor as Cardinal Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan – meaning the papacy would return to an Italian after the German Benedict and his Polish predecessor, John Paul II.
He allegedly told his contacts in China that Pope Benedict could not stand Tarcisio Bertone, his Secretary of State and the Vatican’s second most senior figure, amid reports of bitter power struggles going on within the Holy See.
Experts said the release of the document could be part of a power struggle within the Vatican administration to try and force Bertone to leave.
Cardinal Romeo said Benedict viewed Cardinal Scola as his ideal successor because they had similar personalities and theological outlooks.
Cardinal Scola was previously the Patriarch of Venice, but was promoted to the archbishopric of Milan by Benedict in June last year.
The most recent attempt on a pope’s life was in 1981 when John Paul II was shot and critically wounded in St Peter’s Square by Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish gunman with links to a shadowy militant group called the Grey Wolves.
It has been claimed that the assassination attempt was backed by the KGB and Bulgarian secret service, in retaliation for the pope’s support for the pro-democracy Solidarity movement in his native Poland and his opposition to Communism.
telegraphy
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Last Days
February 11, 2012 at 5:53 pm
What has T.B. Joshua ‘see’ about this.
al ie n
February 11, 2012 at 6:57 pm
yess bafikala kill him he has deceieved a lot of people useless antichrist…
kambafwile
February 11, 2012 at 7:45 pm
alien you dnt knw wht u r saying may God 4gve u. Leave our pope alone. Who has he decieved those peaple who are planning evil about him wil also one day go to the grave no one is here on earth 2 stay 4 ever. He wil not die in jesus name. And as catholic wil stil remain the same til the judgeent day.
ltl
February 11, 2012 at 7:50 pm
ba alien what do you know just go 2 sleep and wait for the day chapwa.
The Thinker
February 11, 2012 at 7:57 pm
We are nearing the end of the end, and not surprising many a people can not afford tot see beyond their noses. In each and every institution or organisation internal or external factors may be for or against the progress the its ideologies and vision. Its not surprising to see the ‘wits’ of Cardinal Romeo expose himself in this rather unfortunate disposition. The threats to power relations are the fundamental causes of the turbulence in the holy city. Its rather absurd to learn of such developments. we, us outsiders we wonder what this means. With the prevailing situation, how possible is it that an African country can produce a Pope?
pano chalo
February 11, 2012 at 7:59 pm
who can say a thing and it comes to pass?! until the Lord allows it.
Muletel
February 11, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Leave the pope alone, why du attack the pope u stupid fools
twafweni
February 11, 2012 at 8:27 pm
awe naimwe! Why do we delight in other people crisis! Lets pray that the lord help our brothers! Christians delighting in anothers sorrow?
drazy
February 11, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Its just a matter of time that what the cardinal said comes to pass.CARDINALS are in the inner circles of the POPE and they will assassinate his ‘holliness’ soon(power struggles).Read the ‘VATICAN ASSASSINS’
Juku1
February 11, 2012 at 8:57 pm
At holy sea! what a blesphamy by de pope.de pope is de man of sin talked in de bible.he must be revealed 2 u, his blind folowers. At holy father! What a nonse blesiphamy.Why are they trying 2 kil him? Has he started desobeying de (BLACK POPE) His boss? Yes they wil kil him. Al de confusion in de midle east,euro financial crisis de pope (vatican de useles and headles city)is behind this under de un umbrela.what a nosense that even powerful nations bow be 4 de anti-christ. Take it or leave it, de pope is de anti-christ and de man of sin in de bible come out of babylon u people jesus is coming.repent and obey de bible ten comandments not catholic ten comandments.there are profs but they cannot fil here.4 more information cal 0967 291164.no fear.
chiso
February 11, 2012 at 9:00 pm
The story z too löng i cnt read.**sleep**
SAMZ
February 11, 2012 at 9:10 pm
WHO IS HE TO ME,AN ARCDECEIVER OF INNOCENT PIPO,I HATE DE POPE AND HIS SATANIC PLANS OVER OUR HUMAN RACE.
Mu jesuit
February 11, 2012 at 9:57 pm
That woman who grabs the pope every chrismas is a puzzle to me! Maybe some1 has a clue..
Juju1
February 11, 2012 at 10:58 pm
That woman lihule lyakwe, every year he relieves himself pa christmas, elyo alesha mafolowas bakwe ati selibas.what a hypocrite pope
P Jay
February 11, 2012 at 11:39 pm
Even Jesus was insulted for doing good and crucified for that. Most popes have been killed starting from St. Peter. So those cursing and insulting the pope are no different from those who stoned Stephen as narrated by the Acts of the apostles. Their day of reckoning will come, some even before the pope himself dies. And Hell will be waiting for them!
fiasco
February 11, 2012 at 11:41 pm
jehovah is the only true God..do nt be mislead..all these are sinners..as long as they are human,name it..the pop etc..tym wil cum when all wil be revealed!
Juku1
February 12, 2012 at 7:32 am
Ba P JAY u are just a blind folower of de litle de pope. Read Rev chapters 1 up to chapter 18. Also Daniel chapter 2,4,5,7and 8. U wil stop ranting.de pope is de agent of the devil.no apologies. 4more information plse cal 0967 291164 serious bible study.
ASBAINT
February 12, 2012 at 7:59 am
Judge not or U shall be judged by da same measure,…speak good to 1 another,…overcome evil by good,…etc. Why do U ignore thz words?
Juku1
February 12, 2012 at 11:43 am
ASBAINT No one is jugding here.am teling de trueth, chalenge me with de bible not your opinion.again no one is jugding but de trueth.
Ted
February 12, 2012 at 12:35 pm
@Juku1, you were born from a whore and left u to wonder inthe street. Had it not been for the same catholic, u wudnt even be able boast the grade 9 certificate u currently hold. That’s why u are not cultured
Charles Edward Frith (@charlesfrith)
February 13, 2012 at 12:13 am
There’s a strong possibility that child raping priest defender Ratzinger will die this year. He is an old man.
His successor will be dangerous.
Juku1
February 13, 2012 at 7:18 am
Charles, u are sport on they are 2 hide in de name of ophanages 2 raise up ther promisquits children e.g ted.
bush doctor
August 22, 2012 at 9:44 am
ba tumfweko ifyabupuba atase.fake stories are meant for babies like you guys