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February 07, 2005

Blogbat was Closer about Pope than Vatican Let On

Pope was, and remains indubitably very ill

 

 

 

Fox News has reported this morning that the Pope indeed was just “minutes away from death” and had he arrived at the hospital merely a short while later he wouldn’t have made it.

 

The report directly contradicts official Vatican statements to the press during that same time which painted a picture of a mildly ill, yet robust Pontiff. Methinks I’m not the only one who doubted those earlier reports.

 

As further indication of just how serious the Pope’s illness may well be, signs are popping up that the Vatican “has moved indefinitely” its operations to the hospital where John Paul II is now being treated. The Guardian says that yesterday the Vatican’s official sign of setting up shop was raised – the Vatican Flag – in front of the infirmary.

 

 

 

 

 

01 February instant replay:

Blogbat- Has the Pope Passed Away?

 

Credit Update and Further Details:

Free Republic posted a Reuters article, "Pope Was 10 Minutes from Death" about an hour before today's Fox News report.

The Reuters article says of the report coming from next week's US-published Catholic magazine Inside the Vatican that "the Pope's condition was far graver than his spokesman let on." The magazine itself quotes a hospital worker as saying of the Pope, "If he had come in 10 minutes later he would have been gone."

Posted by Martin at February 7, 2005 10:34 AM

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