It took years after the event for it to come to light that it wasn’t a koran?
I don’t think so. If it wasn’t, it should have and would have been corrected at the time and it wasn’t.
Fail.....
That was exactly my thoughts all along. They did not immediately make sure people knew what it was exactly and that spoke volumes to me. I’m don’t recall the vatican denying it being the Koran to this date but could have missed it.
The most-often heard apologetic at the time was that the Pope may not have known it was a Koran when he kissed it. Now we're hearing that (maybe) it wasn't even a Koran at all.
Does this mean that JPII didn't know it wasn't a Koran when he kissed it?