[Mrs. Don-o]

You're nuts if you think a Swiss Guard would cut off somebody's head because the Pope told him to. Everbody knows that no ecclesiastical person (or no person whatever) has the authority to command a sin.

The Swiss Guard would probably pull out his cell phone and call for reinforcements while he arrested the decapitation-advocate for impersonating a pope.

[patton]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_monarchy

Uses Vatican City as the definition of absolute monarchy.

But hey, believe what you wish.