[TaxachusettsMan]

Greeley is still alive?

I lost track of him about 27.5 crummy novels ago.

Somehow missed him during the April conclave coverage: he got the last one (1978) so wrong, yet managed to turn it into several books, you would have thought someone would have tapped him this time around.

Imagine how distraught he must be now with Bush (or any Republican) in the White House and Ratzinger (or any real Roman Catholic) in the Vatican!

And no one giving a damn what he thinks!

Can anyone say Father Robert Drinan Syndrome?

[Cheburashka]

Somehow missed him during the April conclave coverage: he got the last one (1978) so wrong, yet managed to turn it into several books, you would have thought someone would have tapped him this time around.
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I heard during or right after the conclave he was on with some morning TV female (might have been her Katieness, but I can't remember) and she tired to get him to something, anything critical of the church. He refused to rise to the bait, and this annoyed his interviewer no end. Which might be why you didn't see more of him around that time.
Right after that he had an announcement on his web site that he was writing a history of the 2005 conclave.
With my devious untrusting mind I wonder if he wasn't called in and reminded that he took a vow of obedience and ordered not to criticize the church if he was interviewed. As a carrot he would be given access to help him in the writing of his new book. This of course is all speculation on my part.
The book is out for what its worth.