VATICAN CITY
Huffington Post
Media accounts that Pope Benedict the XVI would be assassinated within the next 12 months are unfounded, the Vatican says.
Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano ran a report Friday, Feb. 10, containing excerpts from a confidential document outlining comments made by Cardinal Paolo Romeo, the archbishop of Palermo in Sicily, that the Pope would die within the next year, the Telegraph reports.
The comments were spoken during the Pope’s visit to China in November, and officials allegedly thought Romeo was talking about a plot to kill the Pope.
The report also stated Romero indicated Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan, would become the next Pope, the Guardian reports.
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