VATICAN CITY
The Irish Times
PADDY AGNEW in Rome
AN OUTSIDER could be forgiven for thinking that an unlikely troika of John Le Carré, Dan Brown and David Yallop has been writing current Vatican news reports.
In recent weeks, thanks to a series of apparently authentic leaked Holy See documents, we have moved from accusations of graft and corruption within the Vatican city-state to reports of an alleged “murder conspiracy” that would see Pope Benedict XVI dead by November of this year.
This latter “revelation”, contained in a document consigned last month to the Pope by Colombian cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, has been dismissed both by the Holy See and by the Archbishop of Palermo, Cardinal Paolo Romeo. Cardinal Romeo is alleged to have revealed the plot while on a visit to China last November.
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