your source for this???
Foxnews now reporting this
That would make one heck of a lousy April Fool's joke.
Fox News in the tackiest way possible.
A translator was speaking, nad someone who sisn't realize her voice would comae across the air was repeating"Pope is dead. Pope is dead, Hello? Anyone in news there? Pope is dead." Then Shep apologized for having us hear that.
Awful. All that dignity, and that is how it's announced.
http://www.repubblica.it/2005/c/dirette/sezioni/esteri/allarmetsun/allarmepapa/index.html
Not up on the La Republica wire
I saw it as I was getting on Yahoo in their news line. It hasn't been confirmed by the vatican yet but it seems to be true. He was a godly man and a good Pope. We'll all miss him, whether we're catholic or not. M