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Pope not dead - now being seen all over the world

Another EAP piece I posted to alt. atheism in 2005. EAP. Rome April 9 2005: In spite of a funeral attended by hundreds of thousands and watched by hundreds of million live on TV including 800,000 at one public gathering in Krakow reports are coming in from around the world of sightings of the pontiff in an apparently healthy state and a radiant smile. People walking home from the public funeral gathering reported seeing Pope John Paul in side streets. Reports are that he smiled radiantly and placed his arm over one woman's tear soaked shoulder. The woman who wants to be known only as Anastasica said she simply felt heavenly in his presence and she felt her grief lift. "I am going to put this sweater in a glass case for ever. It has been touched by a saint". In the Giza strip in Tokyo several Japanese Christians reportedly saw the pope. The two girls concerned bowed to him Japanese style. In response the pope smiled and waved his hand. "We were just s...

Conclave lays an egg - what is that?

This is another EAP piece I wrote in 2005 for alt.atheism . Rome April 19 EAP. Following the death of Pope John Paul II several weeks before on April 2 115 cardinals gathered at the Sistine Chapel to create another pope. After the ancient traditional rituals of prayer and chants the conclave set to work. As is normal for this rare and sacred ritual an egg the size of an elephant bird's egg being about 30 cm in length and 20 cm in width was brought in and placed in the middle of the chapel exactly under the part of the ceiling where God's finger touches man's finger in a symbolic act of creation - the act of creating a pope being a microcosm of the act of the creation itself. Initially the egg rolled around in a semicircle and then wobbled back and forth on itself but then the egg sort of lost interest. At this point it is normal for secret rituals to be performed to animate the egg but EAP has been lucky enough to get an inside view of proceedings because f...