The Pope has not been well. He has made some appearances by video over the Easter period but he hasn't been conducting services - including the Stations of the Cross. According to a church-going friend, one of the higher figures in the clergy here in Australia has suggested that the Pope is dying. The Pope certainly has had a trial of it in recent years, especially as the Parkinsons Disease has taken a stronger grip on him.
The Dan Brown book I am reading is set around a Papal conclave - where the cardinals set out to elect a new Pope after the previous one dies in his sleep from a stroke. Hopefully this won't be as prophetic as the book I started reading just after Boxing Day - Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" which featured a tsunami (although, admittedly, the one in the book was man-made and not the result of an earthquake off the coast of Indonesian).
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