[steve-b]

Catholic historian Warren Carroll has noted that a surprising number of popes in the last 2000 years have only lived a month or two, and then keeled over unexpectedly.

During the Middle Ages, quite a few of them had help with the "keeling over".

[livius]

Personally, I always thought that JPI had had a bit of help in that direction.

But I can't stay to post any longer - I've got to go off and adjust my tinfoil hat. And maybe check to see if anybody's beaming anything into my fillings...