[sinkspur]

This sounds apocryphal, to me. John Paul II was a keen intellectual and respected other intellectuals.

I can't believe that he would ask anyone to refrain from investigating anything, especially in the absence of a like request of some other scientist.

[wideawake]

Hawking is obviously lying, and lying about someone who is now dead and cannot answer the charges.

[GOP Poet]

This sounds apocryphal, to me. John Paul II was a keen intellectual and respected other intellectuals. I can't believe that he would ask anyone to refrain from investigating anything, especially in the absence of a like request of some other scientist.

Exactly. Some one also mentioned in another post that John Paul II is gone and can't defend himself. I smell a rat and its name is Stephen Hawking.