My ongoing concern for the head of the Roman Catholic church

[kitmarlowe]

The bloke from the Vatican was saying on the radio this morning "...of course, if His Holiness becomes very ill...". What do you mean, "very ill"?!? The man's practically dead. I know they're all into some weird KGB-style cover-up denial thing but it's getting a bit silly now really.

I have an Ian Dury craving but am at work. Bah.

Comments

[elettaria]

As opposed to when Arafat was dying and people kept saying he was dead before he actually was, which led to all sorts of dramas and accusations of poisonings and a cover-up and so on?

[kitmarlowe]

Hello! Yeah, it's kind of the other way round, they're pretending he's just a bit under the weather when he's blatantly at death's door. But then, I love a good conspiracy theory :)

[elettaria]

"It's not dead. It's just resting."

(Though I've yet to hear of any religious leader being described as having "beautiful plumage".)

[like_achilles]

oh god, yes, I wish Popes could resign. It's painful to watch, and I'm not even a believer.