I wonder if whoever said that is still on ebay trying to auction off the bridge over that narrow channel into SF Bay? That is, one might be suspicious.
I just hope more 'documents' and 'decrees' don't come down in the meanwhile all supposedly signed by the Pope. It's only to recall Wormtongue in Jackson's retelling of LOTR, as he holds up the order against Eomer - it's from the King, he signed it this morning.
One has to pray that JP II gets right with God and The Church, while he still lives. But his time surely is running out. And it will be interesting to see who is the new Pontiff, and whether he at all moves more finally and openly to the left and rebellion, or toward more Catholic orthodoxy, this from the fairly ambiguous, always suspect, and categorically disastrous policies of the PC Popes.
Just because someone's throat or hip doesn't work properly, doesn't mean that their brain doesn't work. Your hypothesis is full of holes.