VATICAN CITY
Toronto Star
The Vatican is vehemently denying a newspaper report of a document spelling out a plot to assassinate Pope Benedict XVI by November.
The Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano on Friday published what it called a “top secret confidential” document written in German about a cardinal’s conversation in China that was delivered to Benedict by Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos last month.
The “death plot” document, the newspaper said, provides details of an alarming conversation Cardinal Paolo Romeo, the archbishop of Palermo, had during a visit to Beijing.
Romeo told his hosts last November the pope would be dead by November 2012, the document alleged.
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