The Pope is dead - for real this time!

[_TJ_]

Vatican sez so

[Longgrain]

1. Sources?

I just checked Yahoo, nothing there...

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. I just watched the Vatican announce it. It's true this time

[jonnyblitz]

6. check LBN here at DU nt

[Darkseid69]

2. Just hit CNN.com

Breaking news

[candy331]

5. Yep, just hit cnn and a customer in my store has fainted when she saw

the flash on TV.

[_TJ_]

9. Are you serious? nt

[JohnKleeb]

3. I know

:(

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. (((((HUG)))))

:hug:

[JohnKleeb]

10. Thank You both

:hug: I really have come to know a lot about him the man these past few years, he really was a hell of a guy.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

12. You're welcome, John.

He did many wonderful things in his lifetime. I've only recently begun to understand the man he was.

[Longgrain]

8. You know I'm standing by ya John...

as I always have in the past...:hug:

[kenny blankenship]

11. No Zombie Jokes, please.

[Allenberg]

13. The world has lost its premier proponet of peace, and a good man.

RIP, your holiness.

[LiberallyInclined]

14. did they whack him with the silver hammer?

what a weird ritual...

[_TJ_]

15. Yeah - imagine the last few hours

Pope: Will you ever FUCK OFF with that hammer - I'm not dead yet!
Cardinal: Sorry, your holiness :D

[Arugula Latte]

16. What? Is there really a ritual like this?

I thought it was just in the Beatles' song. Tell me more, please.

[LiberallyInclined]

17. by tradition- the papl chamberlain taps his forehead with a silver hammer-

then calls him by his given name three times...when he's determined to be dead, they use the hammer to smash his ring and seal- so that nobody can forge new dogma or anything like that.

[Arugula Latte]

18. Wow.

That is truly bizarre. Thanks! :hi:

[RPM]

19. is that why his left hand's fingers were all messed up in a pic...

...that i saw here on DU?

[Abelman]

20. Francisco Franco is STILL dead.

nt