[EL] Voter fraud and the Next Pope

[Bill Maurer]

Actually, it's not really voter fraud so much as outright fraud.  The Malachy prophesies are almost certainly forgeries designed to influence the outcome of a papal election centuries after they were purportedly written-the idea was that the prophecy about the line of succession neatly described the candidate the forgers wished to see elected.

For this reason, many Barons required a vellum illumination of the person prophesizing before one's prophecy would count.  Once a person prophesied, they were forbidden from prophesying twice, but there is some evidence of double prophesying occurring in the Barony of Cooke.

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Jon Roland
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But will the next pope be the last?

The Prophecy of the Popes<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes>, attributed to Saint Malachy, is a list of 112 short phrases in Latin. They purport to describe each of the Roman Catholic popes (along with a few anti-popes), beginning with Pope Celestine II (elected in 1143) and concluding with current pope Benedict XVI's successor, a pope described in the prophecy as "Peter the Roman", whose pontificate will end in the destruction of the city of Rome.


-- Jon



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