CNN: paragon of editorial responsibility

[KrazyHorse]

The account is particularly elaborate about John Paul's turn for the worse on the morning of March 31 at his private chapel when he was "hit by a shaking chill, followed by a sharp rise in temperature" to 36.9 C (103 F).

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/09/17/pope.last.words.ap/index.html

[VetLegion]

Elaborate?

[KrazyHorse]

In terms of human temperatures 36.9C and 103F are miles away from each other.

Normal human temperature is 37C = 98.6F

If you're going to provide a unit conversion then do it properly.

[techumseh]

What happened to the first John Paul?

[KrazyHorse]

Of course, it doesn't compare to the coverage during the last space shuttle crash where they claimed that at the time of the explosion the shuttle was at half the distance to the moon, moving at 2/3 the speed of light and may have been brought down by a shoulder-launched Stinger missile...

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by techumseh
What happened to the first John Paul?

He died.

[KrazyHorse]

Poor thing. That's generally terminal, you know.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by techumseh
What happened to the first John Paul?

He was resurrected as an Italian film star in Francis Ford Coppola's third film in 'The Godfather' trilogy.

He also died in that, as a result of being poisoned on the orders of a cabal of corrupt clergy and businessmen- something which was rumoured to have happened in the real world too:

Archbishop Paul Marcinkus was president of the Vatican Bank from 1971 to 1989. As such, he held the purse strings for the international church. He was constantly seen accompanying Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II, and he was considered by many to be the second most powerful man in the church.

He arguably held the most power in the Catholic Church of any American in the history of the church.

But by the early 1980s, Marcinkus was increasingly being implicated in massive financial scandals, scandals that spent months on the front pages of newspapers and magazines throughout Europe. His dealings were also the subject of several books published in the 1980s.

In the mid-'80s, Italian authorities tried to arrest Marcinkus in connection with a stunning array of crimes, including assassination financing, arms smuggling, and trafficking in stolen gold, counterfeit currencies and radioactive materials.

Italian authorities also wanted to talk to Marcinkus regarding what he knew about numerous murders. Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, most every key player involved in schemes with Marcinkus ended up dead. A journalist investigating Marcinkus, the Vatican Bank and their ties to the mob also was murdered at the time.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2003-02-13/news/nelson.html

Roberto Calvi was also found dangling off Blackfriars Bridge in London:

Start with a body found on the morning of June 17, 1982 beneath London's Blackfriars bridge. The corpse was dangling from a rope, weighed down with 14 pounds of brick and stone; the victim's hands had been tied behind his back, a fact which seemed to be ignored by the coroner who pronounced the affair a simple suicide. But there was much more. The body was that of Roberto Calvi, head of the elite Banco Ambrosiano, at the time the largest privately owned financial institution in Italy. A second inquest, demanded by Calvi's family, began to blow open a financial and political scandal that has reverberated throughout the continent, and beyond.

When investigators began digging into the Calvi affair, they discovered a shortfall of nearly $1.3 billion at Banco Ambrosiano. Later, the money was traced to accounts owned by the Vatican. Calvi and his bank were also involved with a shadowy figure named Licio Gelli, head of a renegade secret Masonic lodge named P-2 or "Propaganda Due." The P-2 membership roles included over a thousand leading political, financial and government figures; subsequent investigation revealed that Gelli's organization had links to the Italian intelligence ministries, senior military staff, even top figures in the nation's media. Forty-eight members of the parliament were secret members, along with four Cabinet ministers. Gelli had created a "state within a state." It was no wonder that in ruling circles, the enigmatic and secretive Gelli was referred to as "the Puppet Master."

[chequita guevara]

Don' mess wid da Pope, unnastan!