[Forward the Light Brigade]

Malachy was a gifted seer. Maybe too right when it cane to the Popes.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I put no credence whatsoever in Malachy. I don't even think the real Malachy (Maelmhaedhoc of Armagh)--- a great 12th century abbot and monastic reformer --- Was the author. (Most literary sleuths date the prophecies from the 17th century, not the 12th).

And all his "prophecies" are --- typical of fraudulent oracles --- so obscure, that they can be "made to fit" only in hindsight, when you take a handful of known facts, some of them quite trivial, and try to shoehorn them retrospectively into the oracular framework.

The stuff I've read about Pope Benedict XVI being "Gloria olivae" is just snortingly dubious. Strictly in the tea-leaves and chicken-entrails league.