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February 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Vatican has reportedly opened an investigation into the claims.
The report was written in German,
apparently to limit the number of people within the Vatican who would
understand it if it was inadvertently leaked.
It warns of a “Mordkomplott” – death plot – against Benedict.
The story was broken on Friday by an Italian daily, Il Fatto Quotidiano, with
the headline “Plot against the Pope – he will die within 12 months”.
The newspaper, which has a reputation for scoops, published a page from the
confidential report.
“During his talks in China, Cardinal Romeo predicted the death of
Benedict XVI within 12 months. His remarks were expressed with such
certainty and resolution that the people he was speaking to thought, with a
sense of alarm, that an attack on the Pope’s life was being planned,”
the paper reported.
“Cardinal Romeo could never have imagined that the indiscreet remarks he
made on the trip to China would be communicated back to the Vatican by third
parties.”
Asked about the reported comments on Friday, however, Romeo said that the
words attributed to him were “absolutely without basis.”
“It is so outside of reality that it should not be given any
consideration,” Romeo was quoted by Italian news agency ANSA as saying.
The Vatican’s spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, said the report was “so
incredible that we cannot comment on it”.
“It seems to me something that is so far from reality that I don’t even
want to address it,” Father Lombardi said. “It seems an incredible
story and I don’t want to comment.”
He did not deny the existence of the document to AFP, but added that it was “devoid
of reality”.
Cardinal Romeo also named Benedict’s XVI likely successor as Cardinal Angelo
Scola, the archbishop of Milan – meaning the papacy would return to an
Italian after the German Benedict and his Polish predecessor, John Paul II.
He allegedly told his contacts in China that Pope Benedict could not stand
Tarcisio Bertone, his Secretary of State and the Vatican’s second most
senior figure, amid reports of bitter power struggles going on within the
Holy See.
Experts said the release of the document could be part of a power struggle
within the Vatican administration to try and force Bertone to leave.
Cardinal Romeo said Benedict viewed Cardinal Scola as his ideal successor
because they had similar personalities and theological outlooks.
Cardinal Scola was previously the Patriarch of Venice, but was promoted to the
archbishopric of Milan by Benedict in June last year.
The most recent attempt on a pope’s life was in 1981 when John Paul II was
shot and critically wounded in St Peter’s Square by Mehmet Ali Agca, a
Turkish gunman with links to a shadowy militant group called the Grey
Wolves.
It has been claimed that the assassination attempt was backed by the KGB and
Bulgarian secret service, in retaliation for the pope’s support for the
pro-democracy Solidarity movement in his native Poland and his opposition to
Communism.
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