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truthpusher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 01:51 PM
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Vatican insists Pope spoke (was the Pope pre-recorded?)
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=2625001

Vatican insists Pope spoke

From correspondents in Vatican City

February 7, 2005

THE Vatican today denied that Pope John Paul II had help from a pre-recorded tape to mask his difficulty in reciting his weekly Angelus blessing from his hospital window.

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Vatican watchers and Italian media said he had probably received the assistance of a pre-recorded tape played by Vatican audio technicians when it became clear he had not recovered sufficiently to be able to speak.

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Journalists suspicions were raised when the pope's inaudible words at the beginning of the blessing were quickly followed by silence, clicks, and then a much clearer sounding - though still very hoarse -John Paul II completing the blessing.

Meanwhile, the pope's mouth was blocked to the view of television cameras trained on the window because aides were holding up a sheet of paper on which he appeared to be following the full Angelus prayer, read out as arranged by the Vatican deputy secretary of state.

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http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=2625001
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VegasWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 02:00 PM
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1. Shades of Ashlee Simpson! n/t
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doxieone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 02:24 PM
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2. I saw it this a.m. on CNN.
He looked downright ghastly, and I thought he looked 'out of it'.

His face was red - I was wondering if he had been on some sort of oxygen apparatus.
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