I guess 29 years in prison, the last 10 of them in a Turkish prison, could tend to drive somebody "round the bend," couldn't it?
“All your base are belong to us.”
No, he’s not.
Next we hear of him, he will have been run over by a bus.
No chance of recidivism here.........
Holy Father, please help Acga realize that he is not “The Christ Eternal”. Please help him to know the true Christ, and to be healed in mind.
+ We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, Amen +
Sure, Agca may very well be a nut job, but he was recruited by the KGB working through the Bulgarian Intelligence service. This skein was unravelled long ago.
The possibility exists that "the nut job" behavior is an act.
"Italian magistrates who investigated the atack on the Pope remain convinced that there was a Soviet plot, arising from Moscow’s fears that an anti-communist revolt in his native Poland would bring down the entire Soviet system. In 1986 an Italian jury acquitted six defendants — three Bulgarians and three Turks — accused of involvement in the plot for lack of evidence. Yesterday Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, who was the Vatican’s Foreign Minister at the time of the attack, said that John Paul had “become convinced that the origins of the plot lay in the Soviet bloc”. (Quoting an article from London Times)
"I am the Christ eternal," the statement said. "The gospel is full of mistakes, I will write the perfect gospel."
"That's Captain Doctor Raving-Nutter to you."